Confucius's famous sayings about reading

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

2. A gentleman is respectful and courteous. 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 not faithful in words and sincere in deeds, how can you do it even if you live in the state?

3. If you want to establish yourself, you should establish others; if you want to achieve yourself, you should achieve others.

4. Poetry can be exciting, watchable, group-building, and resentful.

5. 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.

6. If you don’t learn poetry, you will have nothing to say.

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

8. Not teaching the people to fight is to abandon them.

9. I will examine myself three times every day: Are I being unfaithful to others? Have you ever left a letter with a friend? Are you not used to it?

10. I don’t eat all day long and stay up all night thinking about it, which is of no use and is not as good as learning.

11. A gentleman is not careful in comparing himself with others, while a villain is not careful in comparing himself with others.

12. If you pass it, you will have to change it in a hurry.

13. 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.

14. Killing without teaching is called cruelty; failure to discipline is called violence; being slow to follow orders is called a thief; just like dealing with others, being stingy as a cashier is called having trouble.

15. Those who know are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy.

16. Act on the interests of others and complain too much.

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

18. Seeking benevolence and gaining benevolence, why complain.

19. Those who are close to you serve your father, those who are far away serve your king; you are more familiar with the names of birds, animals, and trees.

20. Smart and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions.

21. Knowing and benevolence cannot keep it. Even if you gain it, you will lose it.

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

23. A gentleman takes righteousness as a pledge, conducts it with etiquette, develops it as a grandson, and fulfills it with faith. What a gentleman!

24. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.

25. If you take one corner and don’t turn it back with three, it will be useless.

26. Isn’t it true that one should learn and practice from time to time?

27. If you are straight but don’t learn, you will be blind and twisted; if you are brave and don’t learn, you will be confused; if you are straight and don’t learn, you will be crazy.

28. Wealth can be sought after, even if you are a whip-wielding man, I will do it. If you can't ask for it, do as I like.

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

30. First of all, there are officials, who will pardon the minor ones and promote the talented ones.

31. A gentleman is arrogant but not arrogant, and a villain is arrogant but not arrogant.

32. Do to others what you don’t want others to do. (m.taiks.com)

33. The gentleman seeks the road but not the food. The gentleman worries about the road but not the poverty.

34. If you don’t learn enough, you are afraid of losing it.

35. Being a scholar is not enough to be a scholar!