The Master said, “With coarse grain to eat, water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow–I still have joy in the midst of these. Riches and honor unrighteously acquired are to me a floating cloud.”
translated by Burton Watson
Confucius
from The Analects of Confucius: how one deals with the world
The Master said, A gentleman in his dealings with the world has neither enmities nor affections; but wherever he sees Right he ranges himself beside it. (Book IV, 10)
translated by Arthur Waley
Confucius on the character of leaders: from Book 8 of The Analects
The Master said, If a man has gifts as wonderful as those of the Duke of Chou, yet is arrogant and mean, all the rest is of no account.
translated by Arthur Waley
from The Analects of Confucius: on doing what’s right
The Master said, A gentleman in his dealings with the world has neither enmities nor affections; but wherever he sees Right he ranges himself beside it.
translated by Arthur Waley
from the Analects by Confucius
The Master said, Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to recognize that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge.
translated by Arthur Waley
Leonard Durso 