Quotes from Confucius

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

To See What Is Right And Not Do It Is A Lack Of Courage.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

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

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.