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10 famous sayings of Confucius

The 10 famous sayings of Confucius are:

1. Virtue is never isolated, it must have neighbors. ——Confucius' "The Analects of Confucius: Li Ren"

Translation A moral person will never be alone. There must be like-minded people to accompany him.

2. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries. ——Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius·Wei Linggong"

If the translation does not take long-term considerations, there will be immediate troubles.

3. If you are a three-person person, you must have a teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. ——Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius"

Translation: There must be something worth learning from other people's words and deeds. Choose what others have learned from, see the shortcomings of others, reflect on whether you have the same shortcomings, and if so, correct them.

4. Being rich and noble unjustly is like a floating cloud to me. ——Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius·Shuer"

Translation The glory and wealth obtained through unfair means are just a floating cloud in the sky to me, meaningless.

5. Don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. ——"The Analects of Confucius? Yan Yuan"

Translation Don't impose things on others that you don't like.

6. Don’t talk about things when they are done, don’t admonish when things are done, and let bygones be bygones. ——Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius·Eight Hundreds"

Translation: Once things have been done, there is no need to mention them again; when they have become facts, there is no need to dissuade them; there is no need to ask about things in the past.

7. Don’t worry about poverty but worry about inequality; don’t worry about scarcity but worry about insecurity. ——"The Analects of Confucius·Ji Shi"

The translation is not fair, and in families, it is sometimes difficult to do so.

8. If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. ——Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius: Ren"

Translation: If you understand the way of benevolence and righteousness in the morning, you can die for it at night.

9. To know something is to know it, and to know something is to know it. If you don’t know it, it is to know it. ——"The Analects of Confucius·Wei Zheng"

Translation If you understand, you understand, and if you don't understand, you don't understand. This is the real wisdom.

10. Making mistakes without correcting them is called making mistakes. ——"The Analects of Confucius·Wei Linggong"

If the translation has errors but does not correct them, this is the real fault.