Quotes

When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, and their bad qualities I will correct in myself.

The mind of the superior man is conversant with righteousness; the mind of the mean man is conversant with gain.

To have faults and not to reform them, this indeed should be pronounced having faults.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the mean man seeks is in others.

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Throw away the thought of how you shall seem to others, and be content if you live the rest of your life as your nature wills.

Do not despise death, but be content with it, since this too is one of those things which nature wills.

Let every act, word and thought of yours be such as if you might depart from life this very moment.

Accept the things with which your lot has been cast, and love the men among whom you have received your portion, but do it truly.

Consider not only that life is daily wasting away and less of it is left, but also that it is uncertain whether the understanding will remain strong enough to comprehend things.

If you find anything better than justice, truth, temperance and fortitude, turn to it with all your soul. But if you find nothing better, give place to nothing else.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good.