Quote #4274
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is...
Category Archives: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Quote #4275
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Quote #4276
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted...
Quote #4277
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men...
Quote #4279
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Quote #4280
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue…...
Quote #4281
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth…lust. When he...
Quote #4264
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that...
Quote #4282
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character...
Quote #4265
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.