Confucius
Confucius
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryChina
knows
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.
gains prosperity found
In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.
men law dominance
It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
successful hands may
If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.
running animal dragons
I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.
able faults virtue
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
kindness real people
Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
inspirational faults
Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
leader firsts humans
To become a leader, you must first become a human being
excess spirit
Excess weakens the spirits.
pride world care
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
men nature-of-man provinces
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
practice study pleasure
To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?
jobs men he-man
The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.