Confucius Quotes
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
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At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?
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The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.
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The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.
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I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.
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The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.
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Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.
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In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
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You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
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He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity.
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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.
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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
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Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.
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Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.
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Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.
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The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
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He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail.
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Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.
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Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.