Confucius Quotes
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If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
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The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.
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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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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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From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.
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The love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect.
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Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
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To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
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If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.
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Don't use cannon to kill musquito.
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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
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At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
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Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
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Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.
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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.
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From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.
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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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Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
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The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.
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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.