"There are three sorts of pleasures which..." - Quote by Confucius

“What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.”

“Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.”

“The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.”

“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.”

“To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.”

“If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.”

“Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.”

“Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.”

“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.”