“To love a thing means wanting it to live.”

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

“Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.”

“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”

“He who excels in study can follow an official career.”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”

“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”

“Isn’t it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn’t he a sage?”

“Isn’t it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?”

“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”

“Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.”

“He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”

“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

“The perfecting of one’s self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”

“Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.”