Confucius Quotes
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Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.
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A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
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The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.
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From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.
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You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.
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If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
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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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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
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The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
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Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.
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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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Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.
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He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.
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Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.
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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.
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Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
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Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.
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If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.