Confucius Quotes
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Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
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True wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.
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To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.
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Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.
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How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
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If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
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Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
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The more people know, the more they forgive.
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Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.
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Learning without thought is labour lost.
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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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By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.
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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.
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Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.
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I could see peace instead of this.
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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
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If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others.