Sites with Confucius' Sayings?

Question

I need Confucius' original sayings with both english and chinese translations, links would be nice too.

Answer 1

Confucius Sayings

1) “Forget injuries: never forget kindness.”

2) “I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.”

3) “Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”

4) “In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.  In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.”

5) “It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.”

6) “Learning without thought is labor lost.”

7) “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.”

8) “To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.”

9) “Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

10) “Things that are done, it is needless to speak about… things that are past, it is needless to blame.”

11) “Virtue is not left to stand alone.  He who practices it will have neighbors.”

12) “If you want to get somewhere, you must let yourself go.”

13) “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”

14) “When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”

15) “To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”

16) “The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

17) “What the superior man seeks is in himself.  What the mean man seeks is in others.”

18) “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

19) “The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”

20) “Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.”



http://www.confucius.org/main01.htm (i liked this web site)

Thanks