Confucianism Quotes

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.