Appearing in China at a time of great intellectual and spiritual flourishing, the IV-V centuries BC, next to schools of thought as important as Taoism, leguism, moism, the school of names or the school of yin-yang, Confucianism, which takes its name from the immense figure of Confucius, its founder, or coder, is the current that , along with Taoism and Buddhism, the more it has helped shape the life and thinking of the Chinese over the centuries and to this day, in which he has known a new rebirth. Confucius's teaching focuses on man, his message is first and foremost social and moral, but, as the quotations in this book, Confucius, starting from the common man, show the way for him to deploy all his highest potentials. This lofty spiritual ideal has a universal value and for all times.