Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.
A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.
What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.
He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
Words are the voice of the heart.
He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity
Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.
Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.
Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it
In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.
The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.
The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously
If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.
By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.
Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
Humanity is the equity of the heart.
True wisdom is knowing what you don't know
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
I am not an originator but a transmitter.
When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.
I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.
When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.
The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.
It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.
Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few.
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.
First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.
The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.
The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.
