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

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.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

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?

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.