He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.
The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.
Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.
For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.
Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?
On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.
Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
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)
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.
He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure.
Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.
Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.
Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.
Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.
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