"The wise are free from perplexities; the..." - Quote by Confucius

“One joy dispels a hundred cares.”

“Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.”

“Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.”

“Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.”

“Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.”

“A quick cure is a quack cure.”

“There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.”

“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”

“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.”