When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.
ConfuciusTo be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.
ConfuciusEven if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.
ConfuciusFrom the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
ConfuciusTo be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.
Confucius