Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
ConfuciusLet every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.
ConfuciusIf Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.
ConfuciusMusic is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
ConfuciusGreat as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.
Confucius