Author of quotes: Confucius. Page 2

I certainly find myself a mentor in each of my two fellow travelers. I choose what is good in them and follow it, and what is bad in them I avoid.

I feel sorrow when morals are not improved, what they teach is not understood, and knowing the duty, they cannot follow it and are not able to eliminate the vice.

Whoever is human gives support to others, wishing to have it himself, and helps himself to achieve success, wishing to achieve it himself.

Be like a noble man a scientist. Don't be learned like a little man.

A noble husband helps people not when they are rich, but when they are poor.

Only those who are human can both love people and feel disgust for them.

It's great where there is humanity. How can a smart person, having a choice, not settle in its area?

It is worse for the barbarians under the state than in the Chinese lands without it.

Enthusiasm for alien judgments only brings harm.

I have not yet met a person who would love virtue as they love female beauty.

A noble man comprehends justice. The small man comprehends the benefit.

Treat others the way you would like them to treat you.

To execute someone instead of instructing him on the true path is inhumane.

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart.