Confucius

It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.

An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.

In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.

Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.

What is necessary is to rectify names.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

Cultivated people foster what is good in others,_x000D_ not what is bad._x000D_ Petty people do the opposite.

Men of principle are sure to be bold,_x000D_ but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

Don't worry that other people don't know you;_x000D_ worry that you don't know other people.

Grieve not that men do not know you;_x000D_ grieve that you do not know men.

Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue,_x000D_ small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class_x000D_ thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.