Confucius
Confucius
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryChina
strong giving-up enough
The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.
teacher skills people
Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.
three action enough
Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
adversity happy-life men
Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.
respect responsibility winning
If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in his word his fellow man will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results. if he is generous he will be good enough to be put in a position over his fellow men.
grief mourning
Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.
love family happiness
He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity
love family happiness
He who is really kind, can never be unhappy
men practice excess
Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
archer men missing
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
men self way
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
giving-up men thinking
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
men archery cups
The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.
secret confucianism minutes
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.