Philosophical Quotes of Confucius

Attitude towards life

1. If you are so angry that you forget to eat, if you are happy you forget your worries, you do not know that old age is coming.

2. Isn’t it great to have friends from far away?

3. See righteousness when seeing benefit, and give orders when seeing danger.

4. A person with lofty ideals and benevolence will not harm his benevolence by seeking life, but will kill himself to achieve benevolence.

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

6. A benevolent person will not worry, a knowledgeable person will not be confused, and a brave person will not be afraid.

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

8. When the year is cold, you will know that the pines and cypresses will wither.

Motto of life

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

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

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

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

5. When three people walk together, they must have a teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and choose the bad ones and change them.

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

Selected famous quotes from "Mencius"

1. Therefore, when Heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to a person, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, and deplete his body. , His behavior was chaotic, so his mind and forbearance were tempted to do what he could not do.

2. If you are poor, you can help yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world.

3. I am an old person, and I am an old person, and I am a young person, and I am an old person, and I am an old person, and I am an old person.

4. The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people.

5. Those who have attained the right will receive much help, while those who have lost the right will receive little help.

6. The people are the most important, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important.

7. Born in sorrow and died in happiness.

8. Riches and honors cannot be indulged in adultery, poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, and power cannot be surrendered. This is called a true man.

9. It is better to have no book at all than to believe in the book.

10. Life is what I want; righteousness is also what I want; you cannot have both, and you have to sacrifice life for righteousness.