Конфуций: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 5)

“When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.”

“If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.”

“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”

“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

“Time flows away like the water in the river.”

“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”

“When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.”

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”

“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 knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.”

“The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”
(Analects 4.9)”

“Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.”

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”

“The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct”

“The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.”