"A man may not transgress the bounds..." - Quote by Confucius

“Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.”

“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”

“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”

“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”

“France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.”

“To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.”

“I believe all war to be wholly wrong.”

“A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.”

“But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.”