Confucius

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

Confucius

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

Confucius

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

Confucius

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

Confucius

A Nation’s character is typified by its dancers.

Confucius

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

Confucius

A picture is poem without words.

Confucius

A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.

Confucius

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

Confucius

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

Confucius