Confucius Quotes

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Confucius

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

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• What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.

  

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• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

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• I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

  

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• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

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• My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

  

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• Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

  

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• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

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• I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.

  

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• It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.

  

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• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

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• It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

  

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• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

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• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  

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• A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

  

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• It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

  

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• I am glad that he thanks God for anything.

  

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• Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

  

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• Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers.

  

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• My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

  

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• You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.

  

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• I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.

  

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• Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

  

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• Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

  

  Confucius
  • Fire
  • Virtue
  • Treading