• A single flower does not make spring, while one hundred flowers in full blossom bring spring to a garden.
• The ocean is vast because it admits all rivers.
• Mutual learning among civilizations
• All living things grow side by side without harming one another; the universe and the seasons rotate according to their own laws without hindering each other.
• Learning alone without exchanges with others will lead to ignorance.
• Things are born to be different.
• All men within the four seas under heaven are brothers.
• Is it not a real delight to have friends come to visit you from afar?
• Nothing, not even mountains and seas, can separate people with common goals and ideals.
• Giving a plum in return for a peach
• Being benevolent and friendly toward neighboring states
• In difficult times, one focuses on self-cultivation; after achieving success, one brings prosperity to all under heaven.
• A humane person helps others establish what he himself wishes to establish and achieve what he himself wishes to achieve.
• A state ruler seeks not wealth, but righteousness.
• He who cherishes virtue prospers; he who favors might perishes.
• Do not do unto others what you would not have others do unto you.
• Universal love and non-aggression
• A warlike state, however big it may be, will eventually perish.
• Universal harmony under heaven
• One should value not only one's own culture, but also the cultures of others, and this will contribute to the flourishing of all cultures.
• Delicious soup is cooked by combining different ingredients.
• Seeking common ground while setting aside differences
• Harmony without uniformity
• Harmony is invaluable.
• Everything has a beginning, but not everything ends well.
• Justice breeds trust, and honesty fosters credibility.
• Nipping problems in the bud
• From a small clue, one can see what lies ahead.
• Being alert to danger even in times of peace
• Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.
• Pooling collective wisdom
• Blaming not the speaker, but heeding the warning
• A stone taken from another mountain may serve as a tool to polish the local jade.
• Practical knowledge of managing state affairs
• If you can in one day improve yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily improvement.
• One must have great ambition and make tireless efforts to achieve success.
• Success comes only through hard work.
• Governing by both rites and the law
• Literature is the vehicle of ideas.
• Great virtue accommodates all things.
• Governance by means of virtue
• Governing a large state is like cooking a small fish: It must be handled with great care.
• The Way follows nature.
• Harmony between humanity and nature
• Great truths are always simple.
• All under heaven belong to the people.
• What one worries about is not the small population but instability, not poverty but uneven distribution.
• He who wins the people wins; he who loses the people loses.
• A just cause wins support, while an unjust one loses it.
• The country enjoys prosperity, and the people live in peace.
• Good governance and harmonious society
• Governance must win the people's support.
• Good timing, geographical convenience, and harmonious human relations
• The people are the foundation of a state.
• The friendship between men of virtue is as pure as water.
• Professionally dedicated and sociable
• Complacency spells loss, while modesty brings benefit.
• Virtue uplifts, while vice debases.
• ​Examining oneself three times a day
• Being true in word and resolute in deed
• A word once spoken cannot be retracted even by a team of four horses.
• Reaching the limit leads to change; change leads to solution; solution leads to development.
• Long, long is my road, and far, far is the journey; high and low, up and down, I'll search with will.
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.
• Reading 10,000 volumes of books and travelling 10,000 li of roads to become knowledgeable and experienced
• Acquiring new ideas while reviewing old knowledge
• Accumulating enough knowledge for future application
• Learning is the bow, while competence is the arrow.
• Studying extensively, questioning earnestly, thinking profoundly, discriminating clearly, and practicing assiduously
• One may not study with the goal of becoming an official, but officials must be learned to fulfill their duties.
• Everyone has a duty toward his country.
• Noble spirit
• One is unyielding when one has no private desire.
• Making continuous efforts to strengthen oneself
• Cultivating morality through good deeds
• Great virtue is like water.
• Self-cultivation, family management, state governance, and bringing peace to all under heaven
• The benevolent man loves others.
• Unity of knowing and doing
• Studying the nature of things to acquire knowledge