Confucius Quotes
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I could see peace instead of this.
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Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
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Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.
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If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
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I am not an originator but a transmitter.
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A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.
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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.
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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
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A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
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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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Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.
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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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All things are already complete in oneself.
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Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.
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To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?
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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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Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.
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Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
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Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.
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Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.