"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are..." - Quote by Confucius

“When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.”

“To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.”

“To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.”

“Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.”

“I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.”

“Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.”

“Let thy vices die before thee.”