Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.
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.
Happiness exist when you don't know a thing
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.
Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
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.
Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.
The superior man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
