There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does th...
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.