Confucius Quotes
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Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk.
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The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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In language clarity is everything.
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A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
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Excess weakens the spirits.
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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
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The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
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He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
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A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
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Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.
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If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.
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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
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If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.
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We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
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The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
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A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
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To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.