Confucian Quotes and Sayings on Morality

Quotes

Excerpts

Morals:

1.

Morals are the foundation of a career. Vegetable Roots Lake

Morality is the foundation of a career.

2.

The family that accumulates good deeds

will have a surplus of blessings

, and the family that accumulates bad deeds will have a surplus of disasters.

Zhou Yi. Kun"

The family that does good

will leave happiness to its

offspring

and the family that does evil will leave disaster to its offspring.

3.

If you are not alone, you will have neighbors

.

The Analects

.

Li Ren

"

4. If you make virtue,

your heart is free and your mind is at rest

; if you make falsehood, your heart is laborious and your mind is clumsy.

Shangshu

.

Zhou Guan

"

To be moral, the heart is at ease; to be

bad

, the heart labors and is clumsy.

5.

Rich Run House

Moral Run

Body, heart wide and fat. Shangshu. Zhou Guan (The Officials of the Zhou Dynasty)

Wealth can trim the house, and morality can moisturize

the person

and make one's

heart broad and body fat.

6, the old, as well as people old; young, as well as people young.

Mengzi?

King Hui of Liang

Honoring my

elder

, and then extend to honor the elders of others; loving my

children

, and then extend to love the children of others.

7, love people, people always love; respect people, people always respect. Mencius?

Leaving Lou

"

Those who love others, others will always love him; those who respect others, others will always respect him.

8. To be kind to oneself is to return to one's manners.

The Analects? Yan Yuan (颜渊)

restrains oneself so that one's

words and deeds

are in accordance with propriety, and this is benevolence.

9. The one who puts righteousness before profit is honored; the one who puts profit before righteousness is disgraced.

"Xunzi?

Honor and Shame

The first to take care of

Ritual and righteousness

After seeking

Interest

To be considered honorable, the first to seek benefits without regard to the ritual and righteousness is a

Disgrace

10, the people's virtue in me, can not be forgotten, I have the virtue of

in the person

Again, can not be forgotten. It is not to be forgotten.

The Warring States Strategy? Wei Si"

Others who have been

benevolent to me

should not be forgotten; I who have been benevolent to others should not fail to forget.

11.

Love knows its evil, hate its good.

The Book of Rites?

Qu Li

Superior

To the one you love you must see his faults, and to the one you hate you must see his merits.

12.

With friends

, one must be true to one's word.

The Analects? Xue而》

与朋友相交往，说话要守

信用

13、

君子

以文会友，以友辅仁。

The Analects? Yan Yuan (颜渊)

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