Confucius

"La natura può più dell'arte."

"Ei se helevettikhän niin kuuma ole ku pappi sen saarnaa. (Kemi, Lapland) (KRA)"

"Nature outweighing art begets roughness; art outweighing nature begets pedantry. Art and nature well blent make a gentleman."

"Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest."

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

"Follow the seasons of Ha, Ride in the state carriage of Yau, Wear the ceremonial cap of Chan, Let the music be the Shiu with its pantomimes."

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

"弟子，入則孝，出則弟，謹而信，凡愛眾，而親仁。行有餘力，則以學文。"

"主忠信。毋友不如己者。過，則勿憚改。"

"道千乘之國，敬事而信，節用而愛人，使民以時。"

"君子食無求飽，居無求安，敏於事而慎於言，就有道而正焉，可謂好學也已。"

"不患人之不己知，患不知人也。"

"君子不重則不威，學則不固。主忠信。無友不如己者。過則勿憚改。"

"【第一章】子曰、爲政以德、譬如北辰、居其所、而眾星共之。"

"溫故而知新，可以為師矣。"

"I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known."

"君子周而不比，小人比而不周。"

"學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。"

"攻乎異端，斯害也己。"

"由，誨女知之乎，知之為知之，不知為不知，是知也。"

"視其所以，觀其所由，察其所安。人焉叟哉？人焉叟哉？"

"多聞闕疑，慎言其餘，則寡尤。多見闕殆，慎行其餘，則寡悔。言寡無，行寡悔，祿在其中矣。"

"非其鬼而祭之，諂也。見義不為，無勇也。"

"人而不仁、如禮何。人而不仁、如樂何。"

"君子無所爭、必也射乎、揖譲而升下、而飲、其爭也君子。"

"殷因於夏禮，所損益，可知也；周因於殷禮，所損益，可知也。其或繼周者，雖百世，可知也。"

"里仁為美、擇不處仁、焉得知。"

"見賢思齊焉；見不賢而內自省也。"

"父在，觀其志；父殁，觀其行；三年无改於父之道，可謂孝矣。"

"君子欲訥於言而敏於行。"

"君子喻於義，小人喻於利。"

"吾十有五而志於學，三十而立，四十而不惑，五十而知天命，六十而耳順，七十而从心所欲，不逾矩。"

"事父母幾諫，見志不從，又敬不違，勞而不怨。"

"季文子三思而後行。子聞之曰、再、斯可矣。"

"知之者不如好之者，好之者不如樂之者。"

"中人以上、可以語上也、中人以下、不可以語上也。"

"知者樂水，仁者樂山。知者動，仁者静。知者樂，仁者寿。"

"務民之義、敬鬼神而遠之。可謂知矣。"

"君子博學於文、約之以禮、亦可以弗畔矣夫。"

"仁者先難而後獲，可謂仁矣。"

"To rank the effort above the prize may be called love."

"Cornered vessel without corners, strange cornered vessel, strange cornered vessel."

"不憤不啟；不悱不發。擧一隅，不以三隅反，則不復也。"

"三人行，必有我師焉：擇其善者而從之，其不善者而改之。"

"君子坦蕩蕩，小人長戚戚。"

"德之不修，學之不講，聞義不能徒，不善不能改，是吾憂也。"

"默而識之，學而不厭，誨人不倦，何有於我哉？"

"邦有道貧且賤焉恥也，邦無道富且貴焉恥也。"

"A man's character is formed by the Odes, developed by the Rites and perfected by music."

"學而時習之、不亦說乎。有朋自遠方來、不亦樂乎。人不知而不慍、不亦君子乎。"