If we don’t know life, how can we know death

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

The perfecting of one’s self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your ignorance.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost.

Heaven means to be one with God.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.