Confucius’ classic sayings

1. If you are above the middle person, you can speak well; if you are below the middle person, you cannot speak well.

2. Being eager to learn is close to knowledge, practicing is close to benevolence, and knowing shame is close to courage.

3. Introspection without guilt, nothing to worry about!

4. Eight people are dancing in the court. Scholars can tolerate it, but no one can tolerate it!

5. Gentlemen are harmonious but not uniform; villains are harmonious but not harmonious.

6. 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.

7. Disciples should be filial when they enter, and disloyal when they go out. They should be sincere and trustworthy, love others and be kind, and if they have spare capacity, they should study literature.

8. A man who is benevolent will establish others when he wants to be established, and he will reach others when he wants to reach them.

9. Don’t worry about not having a position, but worry about being established. Don't worry if you don't know what you know, seek to know.

10. The deceased is like a man who never gives up day and night.

11. Being on top is not generous, being disrespectful is not polite, and not mourning in mourning. How can I observe it?

12. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always concerned.

13. A gentleman cherishes virtue, while a villain cherishes earthliness. A gentleman cherishes punishment, while a villain cherishes favor.

14. Guan Ju, happy but not obscene, sad but not sad.

15. The three armies can seize the commander, but an ordinary man cannot seize the will.

16. If a gentleman is not serious, he will not be powerful, and if he is not learned, he will not be solid. The Lord is loyal and has no friends who are worse than himself. Don't be afraid to correct your mistakes.

17. Xianzai returns! A basket of food and a ladle of drink, in the back alleys, people can't bear the worries, and they won't change their happiness when they return. Xian is back!

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

19. If you are not angry or enlightened, if you are not angry and angry, if you raise one point and don’t counter it with three points, you will never recover.

20. You can become a teacher by reviewing the past and learning the new.

21. Clever words and charming words are fresh and benevolent.

22. A gentleman has nothing to fight for. Must also shoot! When you bow and let go, you rise up, when you go down and drink, your fighting is like a gentleman.

23. 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, I was obedient; at seventy, I followed my heart's desires without going beyond the rules.

24. Aspire to Tao, base on virtue, rely on benevolence, and swim in art.

25. To govern with virtue is like Beichen, who lives in his place and the stars align with it.

26. First of all, I listen to others and believe in their actions. Now I am like a man, listening to his words and watching his actions.

27. Virtue is never alone, it must have neighbors.

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

29. Look at the reason, observe the reason, and observe the safety, how can a person be poor! What a waste of people!

30. A little impatience will mess up a big plan.

31. When the year is cold, the pines and cypresses will wither.

32. Advance with it, don’t retreat with it. Nothing but what. People purify themselves in order to advance, but if they purify themselves, they will not protect their way forward.

33. It is important to know the age of your parents. One is for joy, the other is for fear.

34. A gentleman seeks the road but not food, and worries about the road but not poverty.

35. The king treats his ministers with courtesy, and the ministers serve the king with loyalty.

36. It is a disgrace to serve the king. The number of friends is so sparse.

37. If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening.

38. If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger.

39. No matter how much advice your parents give you, you will not obey your will, but you will respect them without disobeying them, and you will work hard without complaining.

40. If you raise the straight and wrong, you will be convinced; if you raise the straight and wrong, you will not accept it.

41. When making friends with others, you should promote those who are strong and avoid those who are weak, so they can last for a long time.

42. A gentleman has nothing to eat and nothing to live in, 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.

43. I know things silently, never tire of learning, and never tire of teaching others. What does that mean to me?

44. Being rich and noble without justice is like a floating cloud to me.

45. When your parents are here, you will have to travel well if you don’t travel far away.

46. You know what you know! To know is to know, and to not know is to know. This is knowledge.

47. 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.

48. Don’t worry about what others don’t know, but worry about what others don’t know.

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

50. If a person is unkind, how can he be polite? What a pleasure it would be to be unkind!

51. If you are not in your position, you will not pursue your political goals.

52. There are three friends who benefit. Friends who are straight, friends who are understanding, and friends who are knowledgeable are beneficial.

53. Being rich is something you can ask for. Even if you are a man with a whip, I will do it. If you can’t ask for it, I will do what I like.

54. A gentleman wants to be slow in words but quick in deeds.

55. If you don’t know life, how can you know death?

56. If quality is better than literature, then you will be wild; if literature is better than quality, you will be history; if literature is better than quality, you will be a gentleman.

57. I worry about not cultivating virtue, not learning about it, not being able to move after hearing the righteousness, and not being able to correct bad deeds.

58. He is sensitive and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions. This is why he is called literary.

59. I am not a person who is born with knowledge, but a person who loves the past and is keen to pursue it.

60. Today’s filial piety refers to being able to raise dogs and horses. They can be raised, so why should they be disrespectful?

61. Don’t talk about things when they are done, don’t admonish when things are done, and let bygones be bygones.

62. Be true to your words and be resolute in your actions.

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

64. Rotten wood cannot be carved, and a wall of dung cannot be carved. Yu Yu and He punished him?

65. People who have no faith do not know what is possible. A big cart has no legs, a small cart has no bumps, how can it move!

66. A gentleman does not compare himself with others, while a villain does not compare himself with others.

67. If you can talk to someone but don’t talk to them, you will miss someone; if you talk to someone you can’t talk to, you will lose your words.

68. Do what you are told first and then follow it.

69. When the father is here, observe his ambition. Father is gone, watch what he does. He has not changed his ways for three years, which can be called filial piety.

70. 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.

Mencius’ classic sayings

1. Those who have gained the right will get many help, while those who have lost the right will have few.

2. Look up to the sky and not be ashamed of others.

3. Those who abuse themselves cannot be talked to; those who give up on themselves cannot be talked to.

4. The foundation of the world lies in the country, the foundation of the country lies in the home, and the foundation of the family lies in the body.

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

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

7. People are not allowed to fuck. The shame of ***, ***.

8. A home will be destroyed by itself, and then others will destroy it.

9. A knowledgeable person knows nothing, so the most urgent thing to do is; a benevolent person loves all people, and the most urgent thing is to care for relatives and virtuous people.

10. Without rules, there is no way to make a circle.

11. You can’t have sex with your sweetheart. The shame of ***, ***.

12. Power, then know the severity; degree, then know the length.

13. If you enter, you will be helpless, and if you leave, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will perish.

14. Those who work hard will govern others, and those who work hard will govern others.

15. What a person can do without learning is his good ability; what he knows without worrying about it is his good knowledge.

16. A person’s home is safe; righteousness is his right path. Living in a deserted house, abandoning the right path and not being able to follow it, what a pity!

17. If a person has no ambition, he is like an animal.

18. Father and son are related, monarch and ministers have friendship, husband and wife are separated, elders and children are in order, and friends have trust.

19. A gentleman does not harm others by nourishing them.

20. Digging a well without reaching the spring is like abandoning the well.

21. A country must cut itself down, and then others will cut it down.

22. Those who obey nature will survive, and those who defy nature will perish.

23. A gentleman maintains his integrity, cultivates his body, and the world is at peace.

24. Those who have permanent property have perseverance, and those who do not have perseverance have no perseverance.

25. God does not want to rule the world peacefully. If he wanted to rule the world peacefully, in this world, who else would it be?

26. If there is a way in the world, you should die for the way. There is no justice in the world, so you will die as a martyr.

27. Old people are like old people and people are old; young people are like young people and people are young.

28. A gentleman has three pleasures, but the king of the world does not share them.

29. People always make mistakes, and then they can change; they are stuck in the heart, weighed by worries, and then act; they are marked by color, pronounced by sound, and then metaphor.

30. The organ of the heart is thinking. If you think, you will get it. If you don’t think, you will not get it.

31. Cultivating talents is the foundation of a country.

32. Those who fail themselves are those who fail to straighten others.

33. If you are rich, you can help the world; if you are poor, you can only take care of yourself.

34. Don’t blame others and don’t blame others.

35. If I accept ten thousand bells without arguing about propriety and righteousness, how can ten thousand bells add anything to me?

36. Know your nature with all your heart, and know the heaven with all your mind.

37. He who loses the world loses his people; he who loses his people loses his heart.

38. Only being filial to your parents can relieve your worries.

39. A person who has no intention of hiding is not a human being; a person who does not have a heart of shame or disgust is not a human being; a person who does not have a heart of indifference is not a human being.

40. The most important thing for people to know each other is to know each other; the most important thing for people to know each other is to understand each other.

41. Wealth cannot be fornicated, poverty cannot be moved, and power cannot be subdued.

42. He who talks about the near but refers to the far is good at speaking.

43. Although you have wisdom, it is better to take advantage of the situation; although you have the foundation, it is better to wait for the time.

44. Born in sorrow and died in happiness.

45. Although there are things that are easy to grow in the world, if they are exposed to the sun in one day and cold in ten days, nothing can survive.

46. A man with lofty ideals will never forget where he is in the ravine, and a brave man will never forget where he is.

47. Wealth and honor cannot be fornicated, poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, and power cannot be surrendered. This is called a true man.

48. You cannot have both fish and bear's paws, so you would give up the fish and take the bear's paws.

If righteousness and profit cannot be achieved at the same time, then those who sacrifice their lives for righteousness will do so!