Confucius Quotes
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If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
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I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
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If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
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As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.
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If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.
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A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
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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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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
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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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There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
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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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If we don't know life, how can we know death?
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
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When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them.
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The man of humanity delights in mountains.
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No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.
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Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.
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The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.
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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
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When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.
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The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.