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Confucius’ famous sayings and their translations

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1. Be true to your word and be resolute in your deeds. (The Analects of Confucius·Zilu)

Translation: You must be trustworthy when you speak, and you must be resolute and decisive in action.

2. Once it comes, make peace with it. (The Analects of Confucius·Ji Shi)

Translation: The original intention is that since they have been recruited, they must be settled down. Now that Hou Zhi is here, he must settle down here.

3. If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. (The Analects of Confucius·Li Ren)

Translation: If you understand the truth in the morning, you will have no regrets even if you die that night!

4. It is tolerable, but what is intolerable? (The Analects of Confucius·Eight Hundreds)

Translation: If this kind of thing can be tolerated, what else cannot be tolerated?

5. Don’t be angry without being angry, and don’t be angry without being angry. hair. If you don't use three countermeasures to take an example, it will never be restored. (The Analects of Confucius·Shuer)

Translation: (Teaching students) Don’t enlighten them until they think hard but still can’t understand; don’t enlighten them until they want to say something but can’t say it. Enlighten him. Tell him one angle (of the square). If he cannot infer the other three angles from it, don't teach him again.

6. Smart and eager to learn, and not ashamed to ask questions. (The Analects of Confucius·Gong Yechang)

Translation: Smart, fond of learning, and not ashamed to ask for advice from people below.

7. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. (The Analects of Confucius·Yan Yuan)

Translation: Don’t force things on others that you don’t want to do.

8. What you look up to becomes taller, and what you drill into becomes stronger. (The Analects of Confucius·Zihan)

Translation: Look up, the more you look, the higher you feel; try hard to study, the more you study, the more difficult it becomes.

9. Be tireless in learning and teaching. (The Analects of Confucius·Shuer)

Translation: Never be satisfied with learning, patiently teach others without getting tired.

10. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries. (The Analects of Confucius·Wei Linggong)

Translation: If people do not consider the future, they will definitely have immediate worries.

11. It’s easy to learn and practice. (The Analects of Confucius·Xueer)

Translation: Isn’t it also very happy to learn knowledge and review it at a certain time?

12. If you want to do your job well, you must first do it well. Sharpen your tools. (The Analects of Confucius·Wei Linggong)

Translation: If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first make his tools sharp.

13. Those who have gone by cannot be admonished, but those who have come can still be pursued. (The Analects of Confucius·Wei Zi)

Translation: The past is irreversible, but there is still time to correct the future.

14. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned. (The Analects of Confucius·Shuer)

Translation: A gentleman is flat-minded and broad-minded, while a villain is cramped and often sad.

15. When the year is cold, the pines and cypresses will wither. (The Analects of Confucius·Zihan)

Translation: Only in the coldest season of the year do we realize that the pines and cypresses are the last to wither.

16. If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger. (The Analects of Confucius·Wei Zheng)

Translation: Just reading without thinking will lead to confusion, and just dreaming without reading will be dangerous.

17. The wise do not be confused, the benevolent do not worry, the brave do not fear. (The Analects of Confucius·Zihan)

Translation: A wise person will not be confused, a virtuous person will not be sad, and a brave person will not be afraid.

18. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will. (The Analects·Zihan)

Translation: An army can be deprived of its commander, but a man cannot be deprived of his ambition.

19. Who has no faults? If you can correct your faults, there is no greater good. (Zuo Zhuan, the second year of Xuangong)

Translation: Who has not made mistakes? If you make mistakes, you can correct them. There is no greater good deed than this.

20. To know something is to know it, and to know something is not to know it. This is knowledge. (The Analects of Confucius·Weizheng)

Translation: (I teach you the knowledge) What you know is known, what you don’t know is not known. This attitude is wise.

21. Future generations can be feared, but how can we know that those who come are not here now? If we are forty or fifty and no one has heard of them, then there is nothing to be afraid of. (The Analects of Confucius)

(Young people are scary, because how can we know that their future will not be as good as ours now? But if a person is still unknown when he is forty or fifty years old, he has nothing to fear. )

22. When the year is cold, then you will know that after the pines and cypresses, the carvings will appear. (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: Only when the climate is cold can we understand the independent character of Songbai Aoshuang.

23. If you fail to serve people, how can you serve ghosts?

(The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: If you can’t even serve people well, how can you serve ghosts?

24. Life and death have destiny, wealth and honor are in heaven. A gentleman is respectful and courteous to others. He is a brother in the world. (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: Death and life are left to fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God. As long as a gentleman does his best without making any mistakes, and treats others with respect and etiquette, then everyone in the world will be like brothers.

25. The beauty of a gentleman is not the evil of a man. The villain is on the contrary. (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: A gentleman fulfills the good deeds of others but does not fulfill the bad deeds of others. The villain is exactly the opposite of this.

26. Politicians are upright. The commander-in-chief is righteous, who dares to be unrighteous? (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: Politics means righteousness. If you can take the lead in taking the right path, who would dare not to follow the right path?

27. If the name is not correct, the words will not go smoothly; What is said must be possible. (The Analects of Confucius)

Translation: If the name is not correct, it will not make sense in theory, and if it does not make sense in theory, things will not be done;... Therefore, when a gentleman gives a name to something, he must explain it in theory. If it makes sense in theory, it will definitely work in practice. Famous sayings and translations of Confucius 2

1. When three people walk together, they must have a teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

2. The deceased is like a man, and he does not give up day and night. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

3. If you are not in your position, you will not seek political power. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

4. Three friends who benefit. Friends who are straight, friends who are understanding, and friends who are knowledgeable are beneficial. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

5. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned. -- Confucius' "The Analects"

6. At ten, I am determined to learn; at thirty, I am established; at forty, I am not confused; at fifty, I know the destiny of heaven; at sixty, my ears are obedient; at seventy, I follow my heart's desires without exceeding them. moment. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

7. 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. -- Confucius' "The Analects"

8. 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. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

9. If you are not angry or enlightened, you are not angry and angry, if you raise one corner and do not counter it with three corners, you will never recover. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

10. Zhilan was born in a secluded forest, and does not lose its beauty because there is no one around; a gentleman cultivates virtue and does not change his moral character because of poverty. -- Confucius

11. Learning without thinking is a waste, thinking without learning is a disaster. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

12. Confucius said: "A gentleman has three warnings: when he is young, his blood is not yet stable, and the warning lies in his appearance; when he is strong, his blood becomes strong, and his warning lies in fighting; In old age, the vitality of the body is weakened, and it is necessary to take precautions." - Confucius, "The Analects of Confucius." "Ji's"

13. Don't talk about the success, don't admonish the success, and don't blame the past. -- Confucius' "The Analects"

14. If your parents are here, you will not travel far away, and you will have a way to travel. -- Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius"

15. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools -- Confucius' "The Analects of Confucius·Wei Linggong"

16. Don't hurt others. If you don’t know yourself, you don’t know others’ troubles. -- Confucius' "The Analects"

17. A gentleman wants to be slow in words but quick in deeds. -- Confucius' "The Analects"

18. If quality is better than literature, then you will be wild; if literature is better than quality, you will be history; if quality is better than quality, then you will be a gentleman. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

19. A gentleman is not careful in comparing himself with others, and a villain is not careful in comparing himself with others. -- Confucius' "The Analects"

20. He is quick and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions. This is why he is called literary. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

21. A gentleman has nothing to eat and nothing to satisfy, and nothing to live in peace. If you are sensitive to things and cautious in speaking, you will have the right way. It can be said that he is eager to learn. -- Confucius's "The Analects"

22. When you see the virtuous, think about them, and when you see the virtuous, you should introspect yourself.

--Confucius's "The Analects"