Showing posts with label Virtue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virtue. Show all posts

Virtue, Confucius (孔子)


The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

- Confucius (孔子, 551BC–479BC)

Virtue, Confucius (孔子)


仁遠乎哉 我欲仁斯仁至矣。

- 孔子 (551 BC–479 BC)

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

- Confucius (孔子, 551 BC–479 BC)

Success, Confucius

仁者先難而後獲。

- 孔子

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

- Confucius (551BC–479BC)

Virtue, Confucius

我未見好仁者惡不仁者 好仁者無以尙之。

- 孔子

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

- Confucius (孔子)