Confucius
Confucius
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryChina
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.
mother father hands
A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.
hands wish confucianism
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
future hands sorrow
Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand
moving hands law
On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.
blow hands bird
Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.
hands election politician
Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.
hands rose giving
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.
men hands world
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.
successful hands may
If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.
yoga thinking hands
If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.
past men hands
When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.
wise men hands
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
derived homes integrity nation strength
The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes