If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

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

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

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

Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.

If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.