Quotes from Confucius

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

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'.

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

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

An educated woman is a worthless woman.

He said : Not to know the decree is to be without the means of being a proper man. 2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to construct. 3. Not to know words is to be without the fluid needful to understand men.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

The Master said, "If a man of position [junzi] does not have integrity, he will not inspire awe.

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

The Jitong chapter of the Book of Rites says, "There are three ways of caring for one's parents: when they are alive, look after them; when they are deceased, tend to the death rites; when the death rites have been completed, offer them sacrifice.