Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

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.

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

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

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