"When a man has a mind to do good, he is not far from it."

"The superior man has three things in which he delights, and to be ruler over the empire is not one of them."

"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 trees on Ox Mountain were once beautiful. But because they were close to a large city, they were felled by axes. How could they remain beautiful? Yet, even so, the sprouting branches and leaves wo…"

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