Confucius Quotes
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)
Confucius
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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
Irina Shayk
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Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
Fidel Castro
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The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Samuel Johnson
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The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?
Xun Kuang
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
Luigi Pirandello
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Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm of lovemaking.
Eden Phillpotts
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This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.
Jacques Ellul
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When I was a kid I got no respect. I played hide-and-seek. They wouldn't even look for me.
Jack Roy
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What . . . is this testimony of Jesus, how can it be acquired, and what will it do for those who receive it? The testimony of Jesus is the sure and certain knowledge, revealed to the spirit of a person through the Holy Ghost, that Jesus is the living Son of the living God. Because the testimony of Jesus is God-given, it stands preeminent and is essential to a happy life. It is the fundamental principle of our religion, and all other things pertaining to our faith are appendages to it.
Keith B. McMullin
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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)
Confucius