Confucius Quotes
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Future generation is the most important thing.
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There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
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He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
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The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
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The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
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Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.
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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
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A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
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Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead.
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Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.
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The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.
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I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.
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A man of wisdom delights in water.
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Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.
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Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.
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The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.
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The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.