Confucius Quotes
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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
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He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
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Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.
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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
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Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.
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Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.
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The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.
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In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.
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She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
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Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.
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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
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The more people know, the more they forgive.
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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
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True wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?
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Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.