If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.