Confucius Quotes
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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When frying small fish, disturb them little.
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To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.
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We should worship as though the deity were present.
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
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A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.
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The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
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We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
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A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.
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Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.
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Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.
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When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.
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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
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Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
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Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.
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Time flows away like the water in the river.
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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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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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Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.