"When you see good, move toward it as though you could never reach it; when you see evil, shrink from it as though you had put your hand in boiling water."

"Learning continues until death and only then does it cease."

"The wise man is not confused by things."

"The sage is the one who understands the reasons for things."

"The gentleman is broad-minded but not partisan; the petty man is partisan but not broad-minded."