To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence.
To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.
To make good conversation there are a thousand subjects, but there are still those who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
To mock your elders is to wreck the house where you have to stay tonight.
To open a business is very easy; to keep it open is very difficult.
To open a shop is easy -- the hard part is keeping it open.
To pretend to satisfy one's desires with worldly goods is like using straw to put out a fire.
To serve a prince is like sleeping with a tiger.
To stop drinking, study a drunkard when you are sober.
To talk goodness is not good . . . only to do it is.
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.
Too much politeness conceals deceit.
Too much spirit shows a lack of it.
Too often do we waste time chasing a gust of wind or grasping at shadows.
Treat thoughts as guests and wishes as children.
Two good talkers are not worth one good listener.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal.
Unjustly obtained wealth is as snow sprinkled with hot water.
Unplowed fields make hollow bellies; unread books make hollow minds.
Urge people to work, not to eat.
