I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

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.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

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?

Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.