He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved his fellows. But whether he knows it or whether he does not know it, whether he hears it or whether he does not hear it, his love for his is without end, and mankind cease not to repose therein.

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.