“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

— Confucius · Life quote

— CONFUCIUS

Philosopher · 551 – 479

Chinese philosopher whose teachings in the Analects shaped East Asian ethics, education, and governance for two millennia.

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Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

To give ones self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

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