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There are a ton of starting points.
At the core you have:
Great Learning - Chapter from The Book of Rites, small Confucius section with 9 commentary sections from his disciple, Zengzi.
Doctrine of the Mean - written by the grandson of Confucius and adopted into the c
Analects - pure Confucianism, every word supposedly taken from the works of his disciples. It's very important to get a good commentary on this text. Lau is the traditional version and Dawson is generally picked as the next best. There's also a fantastic commentary from Neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi translated by Daniel Gardner.
Mencius - A later scholar, who learned from Zengzi. He had a slightly different take on things. A must read if you want to study the evolution of Confucianism through the ages.
In addition I would add my former professor's work:
Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch'en Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi if you want to see the conflicts and divisions in Confucian thought.