The Analects

Confucius Quote on the Basis of Mourning: In Mourning, It Is Better That There Be Deep Sorrow Than Minute Attention to Observances

Confucius Quote on the Basis of Ceremonies: In Festive Ceremonies, It Is Better to Be Sparing Than Extravagant

Confucius Quote on Humanity and Music: What Has a Man Without Humanity to Do with Music?

Confucius Quote on Humanity and Ritual: What Has a Man Without Humanity to Do with the Rites?

Confucius Quote on Ritual Propriety: What Application Can This Have in the Hall of the Three Families?

Confucius Quote on Ritual Propriety: If He Can Bear to Do This, What May He Not Bear to Do?

Confucius Quote on Courage: To See What Is Right and Not to Do It Is Want of Courage

Confucius Quote on Flattery: To Sacrifice to a Spirit Not Belonging to Him Is Flattery

Confucius Quote on Foresight: Some Other May Follow the Zhou, but Though a Hundred Ages Distant, Its Affairs May Be Known

Confucius Quote on History: The Zhou Dynasty Has Followed the Regulations of Yin, What Was Added or Omitted May Be Known

Confucius Quote on History: The Yin Dynasty Followed the Regulations of the Xia, What Was Added or Omitted May Be Known

Confucius Quote: How Can a Carriage Be Made to Go Without the Yoking Bar?

Confucius Quote: I Do Not Know How a Man Without Truthfulness Is to Get On

Confucius Quote on Governance: Filial Piety and Fraternal Duty Are The Exercise of Government

Confucius Quote on Encouraging Virtue: Advance the Good and Teach the Incompetent and They Will Seek to Be Virtuous