Quotes by Confucius

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.