Confucius

In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

Confucius

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

Confucius

Is Goodness indeed so far away? If we really wanted Goodness, we should find that it was at our very side.

Confucius

Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius

Isn’t it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

Confucius

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

Confucius

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

Confucius

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Confucius

It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.

Confucius