In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. — Confucius Copy Share Image
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? — Confucius Copy Share Image
When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad… — Confucius Copy Share Image
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to… — Confucius Copy Share Image
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. — Confucius Copy Share Image
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world. — Confucius Copy Share Image
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak! — Confucius Copy Share Image
