Looking At Small Advantages Prevents Great Affairs

Success Depends Upon Previous Preparation, And Without Such Preparation There Is Sure To Be Failure.

How Great Is The Path Proper To The Sage! Like Overflowing Water, It Sends Forth And Nourishes All Things, And Rises Up To The Height Of Heaven. All-complete Is Its Greatness! It Embraces The Three Hundred Rules Of Ceremony, And The Three Thousand Rules Of Demeanor. It Waits For The Proper Man, And Then It Is Trodden. Hence It Is Said, 'only By Perfect Virtue Can The Perfect Path, In All Its Courses, Be Made A Fact.'

Do Not Use A Cannon To Kill A Mosquito.

The Way Is Not For, But From, Man; If We Take The Way As Something Superhuman, Beyond Man, This Is Not The Real Way.

If I Give A Student One-fourth Of What He Should Know, I Expect Him To Get The Other Three-fourths Himself, Otherwise I Do Not Want Him As A Student.