If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.