Have No Friends Not Equal To Yourself.

It Is Easy To Hate And It Is Difficult To Love. This Is How The Whole Scheme Of Things Works. All Good Things Are Difficult To Achieve; And Bad Things Are Very Easy To Get.

The Superior Man Honors His Virtuous Nature, And Maintains Constant Inquiry And Study, Seeking To Carry It Out To Its Breadth And Greatness, So As To Omit None Of The More Exquisite And Minute Points Which It Embraces, And To Raise It To Its Greatest Height And Brilliancy.

It Doesn't Make A Difference How Gradually You Go So Long As You Don't Stop.

The Failure To Cultivate Virtue, The Failure To Examine And Analyze What I Have Learned, The Inability To Move Toward Righteousness After Being Shown The Way, The Inability To Correct My Faults-these Are The Causes Of My Grief.

There Are 3 Elements Essential In The Matters Of The State, Food, Military Equipment, And Confidence Of The People In The Ruler. Of These 3, Military Equipment Is The Least Important, Food Being The 2nd Important, And Confidence Of The People Being The Most Important. All Men Rather Die Of Starvation Than In War, But Nevertheless All Men Do Die Of Old Age. Lacking In Confidence From The People, A State Cannot Survive.