He who practices it will have. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
Mankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.
If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs. Confucius not only said interesting things, he sang them and accompanied himself on a kind of zither. We don't know what Confucius' qin may have looked like, but in popular accounts of his life, the image of the philosopher-musician became firmly established. The qin is a kind of zither.