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

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

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

They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.

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.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

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