Confucius Quotes
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Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.
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A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.
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The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.
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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
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If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
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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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Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.
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Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.
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A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
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Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?
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How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
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Woman is the masterpiece.
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If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
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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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Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world.
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.
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The more people know, the more they forgive.
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The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability.
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
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Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
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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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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.