Confucius Quotes
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Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.
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The chase of gain is rich in hate.
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
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Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.
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A heart set on love will do no wrong.
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Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.
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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
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I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.
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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
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Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.
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Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.
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Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.
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The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.
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The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.
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Be in harmony, yet be different.
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Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.
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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
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When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.
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I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.
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A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.
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The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.
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Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
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Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.