朝聞夕死

Having a hard time going asleep last night, I rolled up to read a chapter of Reading the Analects Today and was (somewhat) chilled to come across a passage that seemd to be talking just about a problem I have. I'm not going to cite that, though. But here are several other items I like (all from 論語：裡仁第四):

子曰：“人之過也，各於其黨。觀過，斯知仁矣。”

子曰：“父母之年，不可不知也。一則以喜，一則以懼。”

子曰：“古者言之不出，恥躬之不逮也。”

Finally, under the well known 朝聞道，夕死可矣, the author comments:

“總而言之，生煩死畏，真理豈在知識中！ 生煩死畏，追求卓越，此為宗教；生煩死畏，不如無生，此是佛家； 生煩死畏，卻順事安寧，深情感慨，此乃儒學。”
-- 李澤厚【論語今讀】（１９９８）一零七頁