Confucius Quotes
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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
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When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.
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Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.
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Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
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He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead.
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An angry man is full of poison.
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When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
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Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
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He who kisses girl on hillside is not level.
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The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
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When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?
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Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one.
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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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Sincerity is the way of heaven.
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The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.
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If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.
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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
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A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.
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He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
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Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
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The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.
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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.
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Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.