Confucius Quotes
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To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?
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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
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Heaven means to be one with God.
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
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I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?
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He who is really kind, can never be unhappy.
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
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The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.
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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
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If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
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When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
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He who sling mud, lose ground.
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Excess weakens the spirits.
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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.