Confucius Quotes
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Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
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Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.
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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
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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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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
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Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.
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True wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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Behind every smile there's teeth.
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If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others.
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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.
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The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.
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The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.
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Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
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Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.
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To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.
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If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
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It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.
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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.
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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.