Status Updates From The Sayings of Confucius

- Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men

- Associate with those who can advantage you. Put away from you those who cannot do so
- For one word a man is often deemed to be wise. And for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought to be careful indeed in what we say

- To have faults and not to reform them, this indeed should be pronounced having faults
- Superior man is correctly firm, and not firm merely
- Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another

- There’s never been a mean man, and at the same time, virtuous
- Can there be love which does not lead to strictness with its object?

- To lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away

- Do not do to others what you do not wish done to yourself
- If the people have no faith in their rulers, there is no standing for the state

- If I am not to mourn bitterly for this man, who whom should I mourn?
- This man seldom speaks. When he does, he is sure to meet the point
- Why must one read books before he can be considered to have learned?

- Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Have no friends not equal to yourself. When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them
- The will of even a common man cannot be taken from him

- Only with death does his course stop

- A mean man is always full of distress

- Things that are past, it is needless to blame
- Virtue is not left to stand alone, he who practices it will have neighbors
- Rotten wood cannot be carved
- I am also ashamed of them. To conceal resentment against a person, and appear friendly with him

- I will not be afflicted at men’s not knowing me, I will be afflicted that I do not know men
- The accomplished scholar is not a utensil
- Things that are past, it is needless to blame
- Virtue is not left to stand alone, he who practices it will have neighbors

- Have no friends not equal to yourself
- I will not be afflicted at men’s not knowing me, I will be afflicted that I do not know men