论语-学而第一07-12

A disciple of Confucius remarked, "A man who can love worthiness in man as he loves beauty in woman; who in his duties to his parents is ready to give up his life; who in intercourse with friends is found trustworthy in what he says, - a man, although men may say of him that his an uneducated man, I must consider him to be really an educated man. "

Confucius remarked, "A wise man who is not serious will not inspire respect; what he learns will not remain permanent. " 

"Make conscientiousness and sincerity your first principles."

"Have no friends who are not as yourself. When you have bad habits do not hesitate to change them."

A disciple of Confucius remarked, "By cultivating respect for the dead, and carrying the memory back to the distant past, the moral feeling of the people will waken and grow in depth."

A man once asked a disciple of Confucius, saying, "How was it that whenever the Master came into a country, he was always informed of the actual state and policy of  its government? Did he seek for the information or was it given to him?"

"The master, " replied the disciple, "was gracious, simple, earnest, modest and courteous; therefore he could obtain what information he wanted. The master's way of obtaining information- well, it was different form other people's ways."

Confucius remarked, "When a man's father is living, the son should have regarded to what his father would have him do, when the father i dead, to what his father has done. A son who for three years after his father's death does not in his own life change his father's principles, may be said to be a good son."

A disciple of Confucius remarked, "In the practice of art, what is valuable is natural spontaneity. According to the rules of art held by  the ancient kings it was this quality in a work of art which constituted its excellence; in great as well as in small things they were guided by this principle. But in being natural there is something not permitted. To know that it is necessary to be natural without restraining the impulse to be natural by the strict principle of art, -that is something not permitted. "