Confucius

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

Confucius

Words are the voice of the heart.

Confucius

Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing – there’s nothing to be done for such people.

Confucius

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

Confucius

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius