Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/ kən-FEW-shəs; 551 BC – 479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
Study the past if you want to define the future.
At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.
Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me
Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius say. . . politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.
One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.
He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world
A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.
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.
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?