CONFUCIUS QUOTES

Confucius

Confucius  was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.He was an ordinary person, but his teaching is often called religion. Although questions of theology and theology as such for Confucianism are not important at all. The whole teaching is based on morality, ethics and life principles of human-human interaction.

He was one of the first who suggested the idea of ​​building a highly moral and harmonious society. And the golden rule of his ethics sounded like this: "Do not do to another what you do not want yourself." His teaching has found such a wide response among people that it was adopted as an ideological norm at the state level, and it remained popular for almost 20 centuries.

His lessons are simple for understanding to each person - probably, therefore, they inspire so effectively:

1. If you hate, then you are defeated.
2. Give guidance only to those who seek knowledge, discovering their ignorance.
3. Happiness is when you are understood, great happiness is when you are loved, real happiness is when you love.
4. In fact, life is simple, but we persistently complicate it.
5. Choose a job to your liking, and you do not have to work a single day in your life.
6. You can curse the darkness all your life, or you can light a small candle.
7. The misfortune has come - the person has generated it, the happiness has come - the person has grown it.
8. Beauty is in everything, but not everyone is allowed to see it.
9. Noble in the soul is serene. A low person is always concerned.
10. If you are spit in the back, then you are ahead.
11. Not that great, who never fell, but he is great - who fell and got up.