Sentences about filial piety from The Analects of Confucius

1. Everyone’s faults are in their own right. After observing it, I know benevolence.

2. A country with a thousand chariots, respecting things and being trustworthy, being frugal and loving others, so that the people can take care of themselves.

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

4. When you see a virtuous person, think about them, and when you see a virtuous person, you should reflect on yourself.

5. Don’t worry about scarcity but worry about inequality; don’t worry about poverty but worry about insecurity.

6. 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.

7. A gentleman is likened to righteousness, and a villain is likened to benefit.

8. If your parents are not traveling far away, they will travel well.

9. Whatever benevolence must be holy! Yao and Shun were still sick! A man who is benevolent will establish others if he wants to establish himself, and he will help others if he wants to achieve success. Being able to draw close examples can be said to be the way to be benevolent.

10. Being brave, sick and poor is chaos. If people are not benevolent, they will become extremely ill and become chaotic.

11. The wise are happy in water, the benevolent are happy in mountains; the wise are active, the benevolent are still; the wise are happy, and the benevolent are long-lived.

12. My friend Zhang Ye is in a difficult position. However, it is not benevolent.

13. Clever words and charming words are fresh and benevolent.

14. When a disciple enters, he will be filial, and when he leaves, he will be a younger brother, be sincere and trustworthy, love others broadly, and be kind. If you have enough energy to do it, study literature.

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

Sentences about filial piety from the Analects of Confucius (2)

16. Only benevolent people can do good to others and do evil to others

17. There are three friends who benefit and three friends who harm. 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.

18. If there is a king, he must be benevolent from generation to generation.

19. People with lofty ideals and benevolence do not seek life to harm benevolence, but kill to achieve benevolence.

20. Be respectful in your place of residence, respectful in your work, and loyal to others; even if you are a barbarian, you should not give up.

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

22. If there is holiness and benevolence, how dare I? If you never get tired of doing it and never tire of teaching others, you can say that you are done.

23. Faith is closer to justice, and words can be restored. Respect is closer to etiquette than shame. Because they don't lose their relatives, they can also be members of the clan.

24. Beauty is beauty. How can you know if you choose not to be kind?

25. People value benevolence more than water and fire. Water and fire, I have seen those who danced and died, but I have not seen those who danced on benevolence and died.

26. There is a gentleman who is not benevolent, but there is no villain who is benevolent.

27. Scholars must be ambitious and have a long way to go.

28. A benevolent person can be said to be benevolent when he first encounters difficulties and then gains.

29. Those who are unkind will not be able to make appointments for a long time, and they will not be able to enjoy themselves happily. A benevolent person is at ease with benevolence, and a wise person is beneficial to benevolence.

30. A wise man enjoys water, and a benevolent man enjoys mountains.

The Analects of Confucius’ sentences about filial piety (3)

31. Learning without thinking will lead to loss, and thinking without learning will lead to peril.

32. I will examine myself three times today: Are I being unfaithful to others? Make friends but don’t believe it? Are you not used to it?

33. Be knowledgeable and determined, ask questions carefully and think deeply, and benevolence is in it.

34. To know something is to know it, and to know something is not to know it, which is knowledge.

35. Those who are unkind cannot make appointments for a long time and cannot enjoy themselves happily. A benevolent person is at ease with benevolence, and a wise person is beneficial to benevolence.

36. Zi rarely talks about profit, fate, and benevolence.

37. I will examine myself three times today: Are I being unfaithful to others? Make friends but don’t believe it? Are you not used to it?

38. Parents only worry about their illness.

39. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will.

40. A gentleman uses literature to make friends, and friends to support benevolence.

41. You should not know the age of your parents, either with joy or with worry.

42. Aspire to Tao, base on virtue, rely on benevolence, and wander in art.

43. If a gentleman is not serious, he will not be powerful; if he is not learned, he will not be solid. The Lord is faithful. He who has no friends is worse than himself. If it’s passed, don’t be afraid to change it.

44. Is benevolence so far away? I want to be benevolent, and I am extremely benevolent.

45. You can become a teacher by reviewing the past and learning the new.

The Analects of Confucius’ sentences about filial piety (4)

46. Only the benevolent can do good to others and do evil to others.

47. If people from afar are dissatisfied, cultivate your virtues and come here; once you come, make peace with them.

48. Scholars must be ambitious and have a long way to go. Isn't it important to think that benevolence is your duty? Isn't it just a matter of time before death?

49. If people are unkind, what about etiquette? If people are not benevolent, what joy will there be?

50. If you are not angry, you will not be inspired; if you are not angry, you will not be angry.

51. When the father is here, observe his ambitions; when the father is gone, observe his actions. If you have not changed your father's ways for three years, you can be called filial.

52. Be loyal in words and respectful in deeds, even in a barbaric country. If you are not faithful in words and respectful in deeds, how can you do it even if you live in the state? If you stand up, you will see it participating in the front; if you are public, you will see it leaning on the balance, and then you will move forward.

53. If you are not in your position, you will not pursue your political goals.

54. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries.

55. Knowing and benevolence cannot keep it; even if you gain it, you will lose it. Knowing it, benevolence can guard it. If you don't visit it, the people will be disrespectful. If you know it, you can guard it with benevolence, and you can protect it with care. It is not good to act without courtesy.

56. Disciple, be filial when you enter, be cynical when you go out, be sincere and trustworthy, love everyone and be kind. If you have enough energy to do it, study literature.

57. When I was fifteen, I was determined to learn; when I was thirty, I was established; when I was forty, I was not confused; when I was fifty, I knew the destiny; when I was sixty, I was attuned to my ears; when I was seventy, I followed my heart’s desires without going too far.

58. When sex is difficult, if something happens, the disciple will do the work; if there is wine and food, the teacher will eat the food, which is considered filial piety.

59. People who have no faith do not know what is possible. How can a big cart move without a hook or a small cart?

60. If a person has no faith, he does not know what he can do.