A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.
One joy dispels a hundred cares.
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.
Time flows away like the water in the river.
The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.
Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.
Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors
The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
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