Confucius Quotes
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When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.
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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
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Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.
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He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
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Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.
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When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?
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To think twice is quite enough.
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Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.
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An angry person is always full of poison.
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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 superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
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A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
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If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?
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Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
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The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability.
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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
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The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
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Woman is the masterpiece.
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To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
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To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?
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Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
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Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!