"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 sage is the instructor of a hundred generations. When the sage hears that he is still remembered, he is pleased."

"The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come."

"The great man is he who can preserve the heart of a child."

"He who is not ashamed of being inferior, will never be superior."