To Be Fond Of Learning

A Lack Of Patience In Trifling Matters Might Lead To The Disruption Of Great Project.

Expect Much From Yourself And Little From Others And You Will Avoid Incurring Resentments

Earnest In Practicing The Ordinary Virtues, And Careful In Speaking About Them, If, In His Practice, He Has Anything Defective, The Superior Man Dares Not But Exert Himself; And If, In His Words, He Has Any Excess, He Dares Not Allow Himself Such License.

A Gentleman Wishes To Be Slow To Speak And Quick To Act.

At 15 I Set My Heart On Learning; At 30 I Firmly Took My Stand; At 40 I Had No Delusions; At 50 I Knew The Mandate Of Heaven; At 60 My Ear Was Attuned; At 70 I Followed My Heart's Desire Without Overstepping The Boundaries Of Right.