If you don’t learn etiquette, you can’t stand up.
Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you.
If you want to establish yourself, you can establish others; if you want to achieve yourself, you can achieve others.
If you are generous to yourself and do not blame others, you will be far from resentful.
When you see a virtuous person, you think about them all; when you see a virtuous person, you reflect on yourself.
When three people walk together, they must have a teacher. I will choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones.
Be respectful in your place, respectful in your work, and loyal to others.
A gentleman is respectful and courteous, and he is respectful and courteous to others. He is a brother in the world.
He is loyal in words and respectful in actions, even in a barbaric country. If you are not faithful in words and sincere in deeds, how can you do it even if you live in the state?
He who behaves his own way with shame, and who can be used in all directions without dishonoring the emperor's orders, can be called a scholar.
Confucius said: "He who can do the five things is benevolent in the world." Please ask. Said: "Gong, generosity, trust, sensitivity, and benefit. Being respectful means not insulting, being lenient means winning people, being trustworthy means being able to do whatever you want, being sensitive means being successful, and being merciful means being able to win over others."
A gentleman takes righteousness as a pledge, conducts it with propriety, develops it as a grandson, and fulfills it with faith. What a gentleman!
To make mistakes without correcting them is to make mistakes!
If it is passed, it will be modified in a hurry.
Don’t express your anger and don’t make mistakes.
The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will!
If a person has no long-term worries, he must have immediate worries.
No desire for haste, no small gain in sight. If you want haste, you will not achieve anything; if you see small gains, you will not achieve great things.
If you don’t uphold your virtues and don’t believe deeply, how can you live or die?
When making friends, keep your word.
Use literature to make friends, and friends to help people.
Three friends will benefit you, and three friends will harm you. Friends who are straight, friends who are understanding, and friends who are knowledgeable are beneficial. If you have friends, you will be brave. If you are friendly, you will be gentle. If you have friends, you will be sycophantic, which is a loss.
A gentleman wants to be slow in words but quick in deeds.
A gentleman who has nothing to eat and nothing to live in, who is sensitive to things but careful in his words, is Taoist and upright, and he can be said to be eager to learn.
Smooth words and bad morals.
Clever words and charming words are fresh and benevolent.
Strongness, perseverance, woodiness, indifference and benevolence.
Those who are virtuous must educate themselves in words, but those who are eloquent do not need to cultivate virtues.
Listen to what they say and watch what they do.
You don’t use your words to lift people up, and you don’t use people to trash your words.
The ancients couldn’t say anything, and they were ashamed of themselves.
A gentleman’s name must be something to be said, and his words must be actionable. A gentleman is nothing more than strict about what he says.
If you can talk to someone but don't talk to them, you will miss someone; if you talk to someone you can't talk to, you will lose your words. He who knows does not lose people, nor does he lose words.
To say something without mentioning it is called impatience; to say something but not say anything is called concealment; to say it without seeing the color is called blindness.
If you love benevolence but don’t learn, you will be a fool; if you love knowledge but don’t learn, you will be a fool; if you love faith but don’t learn, you will be a thief; if you love straightforwardness but don’t learn, then you will be blind; if you love to be brave but don’t learn, then you will be blind. If you love to learn, you will be confused; if you are rigid and don't want to learn, you will be crazy.
Being respectful but rude will lead to fatigue; being cautious but rude will lead to turmoil; being brave but rude will lead to chaos; being straight but rude will lead to strangulation.
Serve the king with respect, and then eat with him.
In terms of etiquette, harmony is the most valuable thing.
Acting with interests in mind leads to more resentment.
Don’t worry about others but you don’t know yourself, and worry about others because you don’t know them.
Three thousand disciples and seventy-two sages.
Isn’t it a joy to learn and practice from time to time? Wouldn’t it be great to have friends from far away? Isn't it a gentleman if a person doesn't know something but doesn't get upset?
When the year is cold, you will know that the pines and cypresses will wither.
The wise enjoy the water, the benevolent enjoy the mountains. The wise are active, the benevolent are still. The wise are happy and the benevolent live long.
Is it tolerable, which one is intolerable?
A scholar who aspires to the Tao but is ashamed of those who wear bad clothes and eat badly is not enough to discuss it.
When you are so angry you forget to eat, when you are happy you forget about your worries, and you don’t know that old age is coming...
Eat sparingly, drink water, bend your arms and rest your head on it, and enjoy it. Being rich and noble without justice is like a floating cloud to me.
Xianzai, come back! A basket of food and a ladle of drink, in a back alley, people can't bear to worry about it. Even if I return, I will not change my joy.
Xianzai, come back!
Wealth and honor are what people want; if they don’t follow the right path, they won’t get it. Poverty and lowliness are what people hate;
If you don’t follow the right path, you won’t get rid of them.
If you are rich and can be sought after, even if you are a man with a whip, I will do it. If you can't ask for it, do as I like.
Isn’t it great to have friends from far away?
Think of righteousness when you see benefit, and give orders when you see danger.
Cultivation of oneself to bring respect to oneself, Cultivation of oneself to bring peace of mind to others... Cultivation of oneself to bring peace of mind to the people.
You can support an orphan six feet away, you can send a life a hundred miles away, and you can't take it away during a big festival.
A man with lofty ideals and benevolence will not harm his benevolence by seeking life, but will kill himself to achieve benevolence.
The king died due to illness and his name was not known.
Those who are upright are upright and righteous. Observe words and colors, and consider the following people.
A gentleman is arrogant but not arrogant, and a villain is arrogant but not arrogant.
It is easy for a gentleman to say (pleasant) but difficult to say (pleasant). Saying (pleasant) is not done in the right way, not saying (pleasant).
A gentleman's official duties are to act righteously.
Zi said Yu Chan. There are four principles of a gentleman: he behaves respectfully towards himself, he is respectful in his conduct, he benefits the people when he supports them, and he treats the people righteously.
Gentlemen are harmonious but different; villains are harmonious but not harmonious.
A gentleman is reserved and does not fight, and he is a group but not a party.
A gentleman does not compare himself with others, while a villain does not compare himself with others.
A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always worried.
A benevolent person will not worry, a knowledgeable person will not be confused, and a brave person will not be afraid.
Acting with interests in mind leads to more resentment.
If you seek benevolence and gain benevolence, there is no need to complain.
If quality is better than literature, then the country will be wild; if literature is better than quality, then history will be achieved. Be polite, then be a gentleman.
A gentleman seeks the road but not food; a gentleman worries about the road but not poverty.
How can I be ignorant of the French language? Change it to expensive. Is it possible to talk to him with his hand without saying anything?
Is it possible? Make it valuable. If I say it but don’t explain it, and therefore don’t change it, then I’m done with it.
Seeing the good is like exploring the soup.
A gentleman respects the virtuous and tolerates others, praises the good but is reserved.
It is not enough to be a scholar just because you care about your home!