Confucius

Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

Confucius

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Confucius

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Confucius

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

Confucius

By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; and by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.

Confucius

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

Confucius

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Confucius

Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers.

Confucius

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Confucius