Confucius Quotes
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Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?
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She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
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A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
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Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.
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A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
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To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?
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Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.
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Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.
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It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.
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Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
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A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
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Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
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If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?
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Never seek illicit wealth.
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Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!
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The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
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The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.
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To love a thing means wanting it to live.
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If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.