Confucius Quotes
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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.
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There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.
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All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.
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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
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When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.
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The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others.
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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
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He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
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The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
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The man of humanity delights in mountains.
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It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.
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Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.
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There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
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If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
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It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin.
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If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.