Cytaty - Confucius

Here some quotes from Confucius - the great Chinese philosopher:

- Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

- To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

- To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

- When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

- The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

- When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.

- When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.

- In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

- When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

- Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

- The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

- The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

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