Confucius’ classic sayings about etiquette

1. If you don’t learn etiquette, you can’t stand up.

2. If you want to establish yourself, you can establish others; if you want to achieve yourself, you can achieve others.

3. Don’t express your anger and never make mistakes.

4. Being respectful but rude will lead to fatigue, being cautious but rude will lead to strangulation, being brave but rude will lead to chaos, and being straight but rude will lead to strangulation.

5. The benevolent do not worry, the knowledgeable do not confuse, the brave do not fear.

6. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always worried.

7. The ancients couldn’t say what they said, and they were ashamed of themselves.

8. Be respectful in your place, respectful in your work, and loyal to others.

9. Gentlemen are respectful but polite, and they are all brothers in the world.

10. Gentlemen are harmonious but different, and villains are the same but not harmonious.

11. If you are determined to be benevolent, there is no evil.

12. When it comes to etiquette, harmony is the most valuable thing.

13. 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.

14. A gentleman is knowledgeable in literature and can make appointments with etiquette, and he can also be carefree!

15. When making friends, keep your word.

16. Self-denial and courtesy are benevolence. If one day restrains oneself and returns to ritual, the world will return to benevolence. Is it up to oneself to be benevolent, rather than up to others?

17. A gentleman takes righteousness as a pledge, practices etiquette as a pledge, a grandson as a gift, and trust as a fulfillment. What a gentleman!

18. A gentleman has three warnings: when he is young, his blood energy is not stable, and the warning lies in his appearance; when he is strong, his blood energy is strong, and his warning lies in fighting; when he is old, his blood energy has declined, and his warning lies in fighting. have to.

19. A gentleman is reserved and does not fight, and he is a group but not a party.

20. If one is not committed to morality and does not have a sincere belief in the truth, how can he be able to survive and how can he be destroyed?

21. Don’t look at anything that’s not polite, don’t hear anything that’s not polite, don’t say anything that’s not polite, and don’t do anything that’s not polite.

22. Those who are virtuous must cultivate their words, but those who are eloquent do not need to cultivate their virtues.

23. Respect, tolerance, trust, sensitivity, and benefit. If you are respectful, you will not be insulted, if you are tolerant, you will win people, if you are trustworthy, you will be accepted by others, if you are sensitive, you will be successful, and if you are kind, you will be able to win over others.

24. Strength, perseverance, woodiness, indifference and benevolence.

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

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