"Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition...
"We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves."
"He who will not economize will agonize."
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
"Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away."
"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."
"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
"Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge."
"One joy dispels a hundred cares."
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."