The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.