Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.
If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
The superior man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?