Confucius Quotes
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An angry man is full of poison.
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How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
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Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
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When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."
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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.
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Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.
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I never really said all those things I said.
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
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There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution.
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There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
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The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
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Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.
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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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He who chases two rabbits, catches none.
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Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
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The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
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A picture is poem without words.
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That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
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He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.