Confucius Quotes

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Bad company corrupts good character.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.