"If you would rule the world, you must first rule yourself."

"When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil. It exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme pov…"

"The people are the foundation of the state; the grain is the staff of life; the ruler is the shepherd of the people."

"There are three things that a superior man delights in. To have his parents alive and the world at peace; to have no occasion for shame before Heaven or men; to have men of talent come to him and inst…"

"The way in which a man treats his parents is the root of sincerity."