Quotes from Confucius

On peut obliger le peuple à obéir. On ne peut pas le forcer à comprendre.

While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them.

cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and

Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.

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

The superior man bends his attention to what is radical. That being established, all practical courses naturally grow up.

American beer like sex on boat. Both fucking close to water.

Examine si ce que tu promets est juste et possible, car la promesse est une dette.

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

We all have two lives, your second one begins when you realize you've only got one.

To see high merit and be unable to raise it to office, to raise it but not to give such promotion precedence, is just destiny.

It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop

An educated woman is a worthless woman.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkeness

You yourself desire rank and standing; then help others to get rank and standing. You want to turn your merits to account; then help others to turn theirs to account.

Give me a few more years so that I am studying at fifty, and surely I may avoid major errors.

The Master said, "You [Zilu], do you know what I have been trying to teach you? To say that you know something when you know it and to say that you do not know something when you do not know it—this is true knowing [zhi].

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Adev?rata cunoa?tere este a-?i ?ti dimensiunea ignoran?ei.

Do not worry people not knowing you but strive so that you may worth knowing

Man who get kicked in testicles left holding bag

How dare I claim to be a sage or a benevolent man?

you cannot open a book without learning something