· What the superior loves will be all the more loved by his inferiors.(Sima Guang[1019-1086]: Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government)[Variation from The Works of Mencius]...[继续阅读]

    · Nothing is impossible for those who have a strong will.(Wang Jide [?-1623]: Poem Written on a Red Leaf)...[继续阅读]

    · Going beyond is as wrong as falling short.· Excess is as bad as deficiency.(The Analects of Confucius [551-479 BC])...[继续阅读]

    · The superior man exalts others and abases himself; he gives the first place to others and takes the last himself.(Quotation from Confucius [551-479 BC] in The Book of Rites)...[继续阅读]

    · Those who invented wooden or earthen figures to be buried with the dead would have no male offspring - those who start a bad practice are guilty of a most heinous crime.· Was he not without posterity who first made wooden images to bury with the dead?(Q...[继续阅读]

    · When one is crossing the boundaries of a state,he should ask what are its prohibitory laws; when he has entered a state,he should ask about its customs; before entering a house,he should ask about the behaviours to be avoided in it.(The Book of Rites [o...[继续阅读]

    · The more prohibitions there are in the world,the poorer the people.(Laozi [c.600-c.470 BC]: The Book of Tao and Teh)...[继续阅读]

    · Heaven begins to create everything and the myriad states all enjoy repose.(The Book of Changes [of the Zhou Dynasty])...[继续阅读]

    · The stupid do not even understand an affair when it has been completed,but the wise see it even before it has sprouted.(The Works of Shang Yang [c.390-338 BC])...[继续阅读]

    · It is needless to speak about what you have accomplished. It is needless to remonstrate about what has had its course.And it is needless to blame things that are past.· What is over and done with,one does not discuss. What has already taken its course,o...[继续阅读]