China

Capital:             Beijing
Government:     Socialist Republic
Currency:         Renminbi (RMB, ¥)
Area:                 9,596,960 km2
Population:       1,321,851,888 (July 2007 est.)
Language:         national: Mandarin (Putonghua)

China Quotes

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
-Gao Xingjian

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
-Confucius

It takes two hands to clap.
- Jiang Zemin

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
-Xun Zi

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
-Confucius

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
-Mencius

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-Lao Tzu

Learning without thought is labor lost.
-Confucius

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
-Xun Zi

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
-Confucius

A person is born with a liking for profit.
-Xun Zi

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
-Han Suyin

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
-Confucius

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love. 

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
-Confucius

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-Confucius

A good neighbor is a found treasure. 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
-Lao Tzu

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
-Zhuangzi

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
-Confucius

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
-Lao Tzu

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-Confucius

Sincerity is the way to heaven.
-Mencius

A book holds a house of gold.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-Confucius

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
-Zhuangzi

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
-Confucius

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
-Mencius

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius

A dog in desperation will leap over a wall. 

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to   worry about? What is there to fear?
-Confucius

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
-Confucius

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
-Confucius

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
-Mencius

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
-Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
-Lao Tzu