One Who Has Accumulated Virtue Will Certainly

The Superior Man Undergoes Three Changes. Looked At From A Distance, He Appears Stern; When Approached, He Is Mild; When He Is Heard To Speak, His Language Is Firm And Decided.

I Daily Examine Myself On Three Points: In Planning For Others, Have I Failed In Conscientiousness? In Intercourse With Friends, Have I Been Insincere? And Have I Failed To Practice What I Have Been Taught?

Faced With What Is Right, To Leave It Undone Shows A Lack Of Courage.

To Love A Thing Means Wanting It To Live.

Great As Heaven And Earth Are, Men Still Find Some Things In Them With Which To Be Dissatisfied. Thus It Is That, Were The Superior Man To Speak Of His Way In All Its Greatness, Nothing In The World Would Be Found Able To Embrace It, And Were He To Speak Of It In Its Minuteness, Nothing In The World Would Be Found Able To Split It.