Confucius
Confucius
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryChina
heaven way sincerity
Sincerity is the way of heaven.
love inspirational funny
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
spiritual goodness endure
Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness
educational past confucianism
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
integrity men may
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
integrity men fire
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
integrity men morality
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
integrity no-friends faults
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
integrity principles equal
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
integrity home land
Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.
women distance hands
Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
spiritual people world
Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world
discipline littles resentment
He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
clever justice virtue
Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.