Confucius’s classic sayings

1. Learning without thinking will lead to failure, thinking without learning will lead to peril.

2. When the year is cold, the pines and cypresses will wither.

3. Gentlemen are harmonious but different; villains are harmonious but not harmonious.

4. Isn’t it true that one should learn and practice from time to time? 5. Don’t worry about what others don’t know, but worry about what others don’t know.

6. I will examine myself three times a day.

7. 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.

A wise man never loses people or loses words.

8. It is easy for a gentleman to do things but it is difficult to say (pleasure). To say (pleasure) is not to follow the way, but not to say (pleasure).

9. You are so virtuous, come back! A basket of food and a ladle of drink, in a back alley, people cannot bear their worries.

My joy will not change even after I return.

10. Zi Gong asked: How does Confucius call it Wen? Confucius said: He is sensitive and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions, so he calls it Wen.

11. A gentleman is respectful and courteous, and he is respectful and courteous to others. He is a brother in the world. He speaks faithfully and acts respectfully. This is true even in a barbaric country.

If you are dishonest in words and dishonest in deeds, how can you do this even if you are in the state? If you are ashamed of yourself, if you are sent to all directions and do not insult the emperor's orders, you can be called a scholar.

12. Use the able to ask questions about the incompetent, and ask too many questions about the few; if there is something there, if there is nothing, if it is true, it will be false. If you make mistakes, you will not correct them.

13. When you see the virtuous, you think about them, and when you see the virtuous, you reflect inwardly.

14. Learn and then realize your shortcomings; teach and then realize your difficulties.

If you know your shortcomings, you can reflect on yourself; if you know your difficulties, you can improve yourself.

15. Is it possible that the French language is useless? Change it to expensive.

How can it be said without saying anything when talking to someone with a handle? It is precious to interpret it.

If I say it without interpreting it, and therefore do not change it, I will be the same as I am.

16. If jade is not polished, it will not become a tool, and if people do not learn, they will not know.

17. When you are young, your blood energy is not yet stable, and you should be careful about appearance; when you are strong, your blood energy is strong, and you should be careful about fighting; when you are old, your blood energy has declined, and you should be careful about gaining.

18. A person’s life is also upright, and a life of ignorance is also spared.

19. If you raise the straight and wrong, the people will obey; if you raise the straight and wrong, the people will not obey.

20. People have no permanence and cannot be witch doctors.

21. A gentleman’s official duties are to act righteously.

22. When your parents are here, you will have a good time if you don’t travel far away.

23. To serve the king, respect his duties and then his food.

24. Confucius said: If you review the past and learn the new, you can become a teacher.

25. People with lofty ideals and benevolence do not seek life to harm their benevolence, but they sacrifice themselves to achieve benevolence.

26. The purpose of etiquette is harmony.

27. The wise are happy with water, the benevolent are happy with mountains; the wise are active, the benevolent are still; the wise are happy, the benevolent are long-lived.

28. When the year is cold, you will know that after the pines and cypresses, the carvings will appear.

29. I know things silently, I am not tired of learning, I am not tired of teaching others, what is that for me? 30. Learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is lazy.

31. Be tireless in learning and teaching.

32. Clever words and colors, fresh benevolence! 33. Be angry and forget to eat, be happy and forget about worries, not knowing that old age is coming... 34. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.

35. A scholar who aspires to the Tao but is ashamed of those who wear bad clothes and eat badly is not worthy of discussion.

36. A gentleman respects the virtuous and tolerates others, praises the good but is reserved.

37. Use literature to make friends, and friends to help people.

38. If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger.

39. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned.

40. Wealth and honor are what people want and they don’t have the right way to get them.

Poverty and lowliness are what people hate.

41. If I am the author without knowing, then I am not the author.