There are three types of filial piety: the first honors and respects the parents, the second fails to humiliate them, and the second is able to raise them. --The Records of Rites
The year of the parents must not be unknown. One is to rejoice, the other to fear. --The Analects
When Meng Wu Bo asked about filial piety, Zi said, "Parents only worry about their illness." --Lun Yu (论语-為政)
What parents love they also love, and what parents honor they also honor. --Confucius
The order of elders and children. --Meng Zi
As we are old, so are we old; as we are young, so are we young. The world is in the palm of your hand. --Meng Zi
The greatest filial piety is to honor one's parents. --Meng Zi
Only filial piety and obedience to one's parents can relieve one's worries. --Meng Zi
There is kinship between father and son, righteousness between ruler and minister, separation between husband and wife, reclassification between the young and the old, and trust between friends. --Meng Zi
Which is the greatest? What is the greatest thing to do? It is important to guard your body. I have heard of those who can serve their relatives without losing their bodies; I have not heard of those who can serve their relatives without losing their bodies. Who is not for the matter? The matter of relatives, the matter of the original; who is not for the guard? The first thing you need to do is to keep the body, and the first thing you need to do is to keep the body. --Mengzi
The truth of benevolence is to serve one's relatives; the truth of righteousness is to follow one's brother. --Mengzi
If you do not want to be close to your relatives, you cannot be a human being; if you do not want to be close to your relatives, you cannot be a son. --Mengzi
The gentleman has three joys, and the king of the world does not exist with. Parents are all present, brothers have no reason, a music; up not ashamed of the sky, down not subterfuge in people, two music; get the world of talent and education, three music. The gentleman has three joys, and the king of the world does not exist with. --Mengzi
The secular so-called unfilial five, inert its four branches, without regard to parental support, a filial piety; gaming good drinking, without regard to parental support, the second unfilial also; good goods and wealth, private wives, without regard to parental support, the third unfilial also; from the ear of the desire to think of parental killings, the fourth unfilial also; good courage to fight to the parents, the fifth unfilial also. The first is that the parents are not filial, but that the parents are not filial. --Mengzi
Without a father and without a ruler, it is a beast. --Meng Zi
Virtue and unworthiness cannot be separated from each other, if the order cannot be changed, and if the beauty and evil cannot be removed. --Lu Shi Chun Qiu
A filial son does not flatter his relatives, and a loyal minister does not flatter his ruler. --Zhuang Zi
The one who serves his relatives and does not choose a place to settle down, is also the best of filial piety. --Zhuang Zi