Quotations from Confucius and Mencius
Introduction: Among the pre-Qin schools of thought, none were more influential than the four schools of Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, and Mohism, and they made the greatest contribution to the issue of health preservation. It also belongs to the two schools of Confucianism and Taoism. Below I will introduce you to the famous quotes of Confucius and Mencius. You are welcome to read and refer to them!
Quotes of Confucius and Mencius 1
1. When three people walk together, there must be one who is my teacher. Choose the good ones and do them, and change the bad ones.
2. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.
3. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned.
4. Learning without thinking is a waste, thinking without learning is a disaster.
5. Smart and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions.
6. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will.
7. A little impatience will mess up a big plan.
8. Be tireless in learning and teaching.
9. If you review the past and learn the new, you can become a teacher.
10. Do to others what you do not want others to do.
11. It is not a good thing to learn and practice it from time to time; it is not a pleasure to have friends from afar; it is not a gentleman to be ignorant but not stunned.
12. I examine myself three times in a day, am I being unfaithful to others? Make friends but don’t believe it? Are you not used to it?
13. Making mistakes without correcting them is called making mistakes!
14. Three friends are beneficial: friends who are straightforward, friends who are understanding, and friends who are knowledgeable.
15. It is tolerable, but what is intolerable?
16. If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening.
17. Rotten wood cannot be carved, nor can a wall of dung be made flat.
18. Listen to his words and watch his actions.
19. 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.
20. To know is to know, and to not know is to know. This is knowledge.
21. People who have no faith do not know what is possible.
22. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will!
23. A gentleman is respectful and courteous to others. He is a brother in the world.
24. If you don’t learn etiquette, you can’t stand up.
25. Zi Jue Four: No intention, no necessity, no solidity, no self.
26. At first I was with people, listening to their words and trusting their actions; now I am with people, listening to their words and observing their actions.
27. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries.
28. Those who are upright are upright and righteous. Observe words and colors, and consider the following people.
29. 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.
30. The wise are happy with water, the benevolent are happy with mountains; the wise are active, the benevolent are quiet; the wise are happy, the benevolent are long-lived.
31. A knowledgeable person will not be confused, a kind person will not worry, and a brave person will not be afraid.
32. The father is watching his ambitions, but the father is not watching his actions. If you have not changed your father's ways for three years, you can be called filial.
33. When you are young, your blood energy is not 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.
34. With a basket of food and a ladle of drink, in a back alley, people cannot bear to worry, but they will not change their happiness when they return. It is a wise thing to return.
35. People can be magnanimous to the Tao, but not Tao to magnify people.
36. Clever words and charming words, fresh and benevolent!
37. The way is based on virtue, the order is based on courtesy, and there is shame and dignity.
38. When the year is cold, you will know that the pines and cypresses will be carved after that.
39. I am not a person who is born with knowledge, but a person who loves the past and is keen to pursue it.
40. People are born straight, and they are lucky to be born recklessly.
41. If quality is better than literature, the country will be wild; if literature is better than quality, history will be achieved. Be polite, then be a gentleman.
42. If your parents are here, you will have to travel well if you don’t travel far away.
43. Don’t express your anger and never make mistakes.
44. 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, my ears were obedient; when I was seventy, I followed my heart's desires without exceeding the rules.
45. It is not enough for a scholar to aspire to the Tao but be ashamed of his bad clothes and bad food.
46. 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.
47. Eat sparingly, 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.
48. When you see the virtuous, think about them; when you see the virtuous, you should reflect on yourself.
49. Xian Zai, come back! 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.
50. 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. Quotations from Confucius and Mencius 2
1. The heart of compassion is the root of benevolence; the heart of shame and disgust is the root of righteousness; the heart of resignation is the root of courtesy; the heart of right and wrong is the root of wisdom.
2. For a five-acre house with mulberry trees, a person in his fifties can wear silk clothes.
3. Confucius climbed to Mount Dong and made Lu small, and climbed Mount Tai to make the world small.
4. If everyone, from the top to the bottom, including the scholars and common people, takes their benefits, the country will be in danger, chaos and destruction. The king calls the country a question, the officials ask questions about the family, and the scholars and common people ask questions about the body.
5. Benevolence is better than unkindness, just like water is better than fire. Nowadays, a person who is benevolent is like using a cup of water to save a load of fire. If it is not extinguished, it is said that water cannot overcome the fire. This is also the case with those who are unkind, and they will eventually perish.
6. Then the world will return to its own, and the government will hurt the people, and the people will enjoy their death, and use stilts to subjugate the strong, which is benevolent and unbenevolent.
7. When looking at King Xiang from afar, he does not look like a human king, which means that no one has the majesty of a king.
8. King Hui now asks me, "How can I benefit my country?" Then the king's officials will ask me, "How can I benefit my family?" Since the king wants to benefit his family, the king's officials and common people will also ask me, "How can I benefit my family?" Why benefit me?
9. Without rules, there is no way to make a circle.
10. The king’s officials will ask me, “How can I benefit my family?” Since I want to benefit my family, the king’s scholars and common people will also ask me, “How can I benefit my body?” If everyone from the top to the bottom, including the scholars and common people, takes advantage of them, the country will be in danger, chaos and destruction.
11. A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them. Having both parents and having brothers without any reason is one happiness; looking up to Heaven and not being ashamed of others is the second happiness; being able to educate the talented people from all over the world is the third happiness. A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them.
12. If the emperor is unkind, he will not protect the world; if the princes are unkind, he will not protect the country; if the ministers and officials are unkind, they will not protect the ancestral temple; if the scholars and common people are unkind, they will not protect the four bodies.
13. Having fun alone or having fun with others, which one is happy?
14. Wealth and honor cannot lead to adultery, poverty and lowliness cannot change, and power cannot yield. This is called a true man.
15. Mencius said that there is no one who abandons his relatives out of benevolence, and there is no one who abandons his king out of righteousness.
16. It is used to resemble people. This is why the people of Sri Lanka died of hunger.
17. Grain is a kind of beautiful plant. It is not as good as catkin and barnyard grass if it is not ripe. Furen is just about being familiar with it.
18. Old people are like old people and people are old; young people are like young people and people are young.
19. If you are poor, you will be good for yourself; if you are ambitious, you will be good for the world.
20. When Jie and Zhou lost the world, they also lost their people; when they lost their people, they also lost their hearts. There is a way to win the world: if you win its people, you will win the world; if you win its people, you will win the world; if you win their hearts, you will win the people; if you win their hearts, you will have a way: gather with them what you want, and do not do to them what you want.
21. Respect the teachings of Xiangxu, apply the meaning of filial piety and brotherhood, and award the white ones to live up to the road.
22. Just as a thousand chariots capture ten thousand chariots, a hundred chariots capture a thousand chariots, and then you are full.
23. Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust a person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind and will, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions. Therefore, if he is tempted to endure, he has Benefit from what it cannot do.
24. A wise man will enjoy it later. Even if an unworthy person has this, he will not be happy.
25. A gentleman is always kind to others.
26. I heard that within Jiaoguan, there is an area of ??forty miles, and killing the elk there is like committing murder.
27. Those who speak poetry should not harm their words with words, nor harm their aspirations with words. To use one's will against one's will is to gain it.
28. This statement is intended to make future generations search deeply for its meaning in order to understand its text, and it is not only applied to the "Poetry". Nowadays, interpreters often adopt it and explain it, and their explanations are often eccentric and different.
29. In a country of ten thousand chariots, the one who kills its king will surely have a house of ten thousand chariots. In a country of a thousand chariots, the one who kills its king will surely have a house of a hundred chariots.
30. Wang Zhifu Miaohu? If there is a drought between July and August, the seedlings will be in bloom. The sky will become cloudy and the rain will fall, and the seedlings will thrive. If it is like this, who can control it?
31. Without rules, it is impossible to build a square garden.
32. Only benevolent people can think of big things as small things. This is the story of Tang and Ge, and King Wen of Kunyi.
33. Mencius said, "How can I prevent Zang's son from meeting me?" Will contract, if this is the case.
34. Only the wise will enjoy this ear. It is said that if you practice the way of Yao and Shun, the country will be peaceful, so you will feel happy to have this. Unvirtuous people will lose their country and destroy their family. Even if they have this, they will be robbed by others, so they cannot be happy.
35. I am good at cultivating the aura of awe-inspiring people.
36. If the king is very happy, the Qi country will have almost no common people.
37. The one who rules the world is just a benevolent government. He is not greedy to kill people, and people will return to their own country. This is why King Wen treats the people as if they are injured. This is what he means.
38. If the king regards his ministers as his hands and feet, then his ministers will regard him as his heart; if his ministers regard his ministers as dogs and horses, then his ministers will regard him as his fellow countrymen; if his ministers regard his ministers as earth and mustard, then his ministers will regard him as such. foe.
39. A promising person is like digging a well. If the well is dug nine times and fails to reach the spring, it is like abandoning the well.
40. Those who conquer the country without benevolence already exist; those who conquer the world without benevolence do not yet exist.
41. Those who enjoy the people's happiness will also enjoy their happiness; those who worry about the people's worries will also worry about their worries. He is happy with the world and worried about the world. However, there is no one who is not a king.
42. Mencius retreated from Qi and Liang Dynasties and wrote about the ways of Yao and Shun. This great sage imitated the sage and was the author.
43. A gentleman maintains his integrity and cultivates his body, and the world will be at peace.
44. If the king and the people enjoy themselves now, then he is king.
45. Fish is what I want; bear paws are what I want. You can't have both, it's like giving up the fish for the bear's paw. Life is what I want; righteousness is what I want. You can't have both, you have to sacrifice your life for righteousness.
46. If you are not ashamed, why should you be like a human being?
47. Born in sorrow and died in happiness.
48. The propriety of the wind and the righteous words of Erya can be said to be straight but not arrogant, crooked but not yielding, and they are also the great talents of the world's sub-sages.
49. If you don’t follow the rules, you won’t be able to form a circle.
50. In a prosperous year, the children will be many and unlucky; in a bad year, the children will be many and violent. This is not because of talent sent from heaven, but because of the indulgence in one's heart.
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