Confucius

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

A man of wisdom delights in water.

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

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.

Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.

Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.

Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.