Confucius’ famous verses are as follows:
1. 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.
2. If you review the past and learn the new, you can become a teacher.
3. Gentlemen are harmonious but different; villains are harmonious but not harmonious.
4. A gentleman is likened to righteousness, and a villain is likened to benefit.
5. To know something is to know it, and to know it is to know it. It is knowledge.
6. Smart and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions.
7. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.
8. Be true to your word and bear fruit in your deeds.
9. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries.
10. A gentleman is arrogant but not arrogant, and a villain is arrogant but not arrogant.
11. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned.
12. When you see a virtuous person, think about them, and when you see a virtuous person, you should introspect yourself.
13. Listening to the Tao but scrupulously explaining it is the abandonment of virtue.
14. Know things silently, never tire of learning, and never tire of teaching.
15. Virtue is never alone, it must have neighbors.
16. If you are so angry that you forget to eat, if you are happy you forget your worries, you don’t know that old age is coming.
17. Eat sparingly and 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.
18. Xianzai returns! 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.
19. Wealth and honor are what people want. If you don’t get them in the right way, you won’t get there. Poverty and lowliness are what people hate. If you don’t get it in the right way, you won’t get there. . A gentleman abandons benevolence and becomes famous? A gentleman will never violate benevolence, and he will do so if he makes mistakes, and he will do so if he is unlucky.
20. The wise do not be confused, the benevolent do not worry, the brave do not fear.
21. To know is to know, and to not know is to know. This is knowledge.
22. If you raise the straight and wrong, the people will obey; if you raise the straight and wrong, the people will not obey.
23. People who have no faith do not know what is possible. How can a big car move without a wheel and a small car without a wheel?
24. If you are so angry that you forget to eat, if you are happy you forget your worries, you don’t know that old age is coming.
25. If people have no faith, everything will be false.
26. Be tireless in learning and teaching.
27. If you are so angry that you forget to eat, if you are happy you forget your worries, you don’t know that old age is coming.
28. There must be a teacher among us; choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones.
29. A gentleman does not use words to promote others, nor does he use people to waste words.
30. If you don’t know someone’s fault, you don’t know who you are.