Confucius

Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

Words are the voice of the heart.

Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.