Famous Quotes from the Analects of Confucius

1. To know is to know, and to not know is to know. This is knowledge.

2. Failure to do what is right is a lack of courage.

3. Hear the Tao in the morning and die in the evening.

4. A gentleman is likened to righteousness, and a villain is likened to benefit.

5. Virtue is never alone, it must have neighbors.

6. Madam, if you want to establish yourself, you can establish others; if you want to achieve yourself, you can achieve others.

7. When the year is cold, you will know that the pines and cypresses will wither.

8. A wise man will not be confused, a benevolent man will not worry, and a brave man will not be afraid.

9. To restrain oneself and restore propriety is benevolence.

10 Don’t look at anything inappropriate, hear nothing inappropriate, say something inappropriate, and don’t move anything inappropriate.

11. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.

12. The beauty of a king is not the evil of a man.

13. Haste makes waste.

14. Don’t blame God or blame others.

15. If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries.