What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
Future generation is the most important thing.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.
Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.
Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.
The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.
A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.
Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?
The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)
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