Author of quotes: Confucius

To see what is right and not do it is to lack courage.

If the nature in a person overcomes culture, the result will be a savage. If culture overcomes nature, you will end up with a scribe. Only a proportional combination of natural and human gives true nobility.

Fight the evil within you, not the evil within others.

The most beautiful sight in the world is the sight of a child walking confidently along the path of life after you have shown him the way.

If for a hundred years, raise children.

We take advice in drops, but give it in buckets.

It is difficult to raise only a woman and a small person (child). If you get close to them, they lose respect. If you give them away, they get offended.

A noble man honors worthy people and is tolerant of all others, praises good people and pities the unskillful. If I had great virtues, to whom would I be intolerant? And if I were an unworthy person, others would reject me, and then how could I reject them?

The most difficult thing is to make out with a woman and a small man. If you bring them closer to you, they will become impudent, and if you remove them, they will become embittered.

A noble man fulfills three prohibitions: in his youth, when his breath and blood are hot, he avoids pleasures; in maturity, when breath and blood are strong, he avoids quarrels; in old age, when breath and blood are weak, he avoids greed.

There are three helpful friends and three harmful friends. Useful: a fair friend, a sincere friend and a friend who knows a lot. And harmful: a flattering friend, a two-faced friend and an eloquent friend.

A noble man is firm in principles, but not stubborn.

A noble man strives only for the path, but does not care about his livelihood. It happens that they go hungry while plowing; it happens that they receive a salary when they turn to teaching. A noble man worries about finding a way, he doesn't worry about his poverty.

I didn’t eat for days on end and didn’t sleep all night long - I thought everything, but in vain, it’s more useful to study.