Quotes from Confucius
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
- Confucius
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?
- Confucius
A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
- Confucius
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
- Confucius
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
- Confucius
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
- Confucius
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Confucius
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
- Confucius
Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.
- Confucius
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
- Confucius
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
- Confucius
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
- Confucius