Confucius Quotes
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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.
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Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
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An angry person is always full of poison.
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Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.
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An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.
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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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One who can move mountains start with the little stones.
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Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.
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Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me.
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If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
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A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
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Woman is the masterpiece.
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When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.
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The object of the superior man is truth.
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Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.
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Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.