There are things a person wants more than life and there are also things he or she loathes more than death.

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 this differ from stabbing a man and killing him, and then saying, ’it was not I, it was the weapon?

When men are subdued by force, they do not submit in their minds, but only because their strength is inadequate. When men are subdued by power in personality they are pleased to their very heart’s core and do really submit.

Make your learning abundant and speak of it with precision, then you will speak of essentials.

La amistad es una mente en dos cuerpos.

People are distressed by their inability to do it. The problem, however, is simply that they don’t do it.

The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.

Treat others as you would be treated. Devote yourself to that, for there’s no more direct approach to Humanity.

Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.