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50 famous quotes from Confucius

1. When you are so angry that you forget to eat, when you are happy you forget about your worries, and you don’t know that old age is coming.

2. Eat sparingly, drink water, bend your arms and rest on them, and enjoy them.

3. Being rich and noble unjustly is like a floating cloud to me.

4. You are so virtuous, come back! A basket of food and a ladle of drink, in a back alley, people cannot bear their worries. Even if I return, I will not change my joy. You are so virtuous, come back!

5. A scholar who aspires to the Tao, but is ashamed of those who wear bad clothes and eat badly is not enough to discuss it.

6. 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; if you don't follow the right path, you won't get rid of them.

7. Wealth is something that can be sought after. Even if you are a whip-wielding man, I will do it. If you can't ask for it, do as I like.

8. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a friend come from afar? See benefit and think of righteousness, see danger and give orders.

9. Cultivate yourself to respect others, cultivate yourself to appease others, and cultivate yourself to appease the people.

10. You can support a six-foot-long orphan, you can send your life a hundred miles away, and you can’t take it away during the big festival.

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

12. The king died due to illness and his name was not known.

13. Those who are upright are upright and righteous. Observe words and colors, and consider the following people.

14. A gentleman is arrogant but not arrogant, and a villain is arrogant but not arrogant.

15. For a gentleman, things are easy but difficult to say (pleasure). To say (pleasure) is not in the right way, and not to say (pleasure).

16. A gentleman’s official duties are to act righteously.

17. Zi said Yu Chan. "There are four ways of a gentleman: he behaves respectfully to himself, he is respectful in his conduct, he nourishes the people with kindness, and he makes people righteous."

18. A gentleman is harmonious but different, and a villain is the same. Rather than harmonious.

19. A gentleman is reserved and does not fight, and he is a group but not a party.

20. A gentleman is not careful in comparing himself with others, and a villain is not careful in comparing himself with others.

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

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

23. Acting only for profit and complaining too much.

24. Seeking benevolence and gaining benevolence, why complain.

25. When quality is better than literature, the country will be wild; when literature is better than quality, history will be achieved. Be polite, then be a gentleman.

26. A gentleman seeks the road but not food; a gentleman worries about the road but not poverty.

27. Is it possible to say something in French that is useless? Change it to expensive.

28. Can you say nothing to it? It is precious. If I say it but don’t explain it, and therefore don’t change it, then I’m done with it.

29. Seeing good is like exploring a soup.

30. A gentleman respects the virtuous and tolerates others, praises the good but is reserved.

31. Being a scholar is not enough to be a scholar!

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

33. Do to others what you do not want others to do.

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

35. If you are generous to yourself but do not blame others, you will be far away from resentment.

36. When you see a virtuous person, think about them all; when you see a virtuous person, you should reflect on yourself.

37. If you are a three-person person, you must have a teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and choose the bad ones and change them.

38. I have to examine myself three times today: Have I been unfaithful to others? Have I trusted my friends after making friends? Have I not been accustomed to spreading the word?

39. Respect where you live, and respect when serving. , Be loyal to others.

40. A gentleman is respectful and courteous. He is respectful and courteous to others. He is a brother in the world. He speaks faithfully and acts respectfully. This is true even in a barbaric country. If you are not loyal in words and disrespectful in deeds, how can you do it even if you are in the state?

41. If you are ashamed of yourself and serve in all directions without insulting the emperor's orders, you can be called a scholar.

42. Confucius said: "He who can do the five things is benevolent in the world." Please ask. Said: "Gong, generosity, trust, sensitivity, and benefit. Being respectful means not insulting, being lenient means winning people, being trustworthy means being able to do whatever you want, being sensitive means being successful, and being merciful means being able to win over others."

43. A gentleman takes righteousness as a pledge, practices etiquette as a pledge, a grandson as a gift, and trust as a fulfillment. You are a gentleman!

44. If you make mistakes without correcting them, you have made mistakes!

45. If you make mistakes without correcting them, you are in a hurry to make corrections.

46. Don’t express your anger and never make mistakes.

47. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the ambition!

48. If a person does not have long-term concerns, he must have immediate worries.

49. No haste, no small gain. If you want haste, you will not achieve anything; if you see small profits, you will not achieve great things.

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

Isn't it too important to be benevolent when one considers one's own responsibilities? Isn't it too far to follow one's own life after death?