CONFUCIUS

Respect yourself

and others will respect you.

-o0o-

LAO TZU

Seek not happiness too greedily,

and be not fearful of unhappiness.

-o0o-

XUNZI

There are successful scholars, 
public-spirited scholars, 
upright scholars, 
cautious scholars 
and those who are merely petty men.

-o0o-

CONFUCIUS

When I walk along with others,

from at least one I will be able to learn.

-o0o-

LAO TZU

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. 

Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. 

Let reality be reality. 

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

-o0o-

MENCIUS

Truth uttered before its time

is always dangerous.

-o0o-

CONFUCIUS

The more man meditates upon good thoughts,

the better will be his world

and the world at large.

-o0o-