Quotes
Quotes - Confucius
A picture is a poem without words.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Learning without thought is labor lost.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
