Confucius Quotes

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

子曰：「君子不器。」

邦有道貧且賤焉恥也，邦無道富且貴焉恥也。

Una casa será fuerte e indestructible cuando esté sostenida por estas cuatro columnas: padre valiente, madre prudente, hijo obediente, hermano complaciente.

The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

Learn advidly. Question it repeatedly. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

I am not worried that nobody knows me. I seek to become fit to be known

孔子曰：「益者三樂，損者三樂。樂節禮樂，樂道人之善，樂多賢友，益矣。樂驕樂，樂佚遊，樂宴樂，損矣。」

Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.

子曰：「君子和而不同，小人同而不和。」

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.