The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.
Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved.
A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.
There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.
If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.
A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it
The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.
Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
All people are the same; only their habits differ.
The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.
Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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