Confucius Quotes
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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
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The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
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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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Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.
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A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.
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Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance.
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Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.
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One who can move mountains start with the little stones.
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Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
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I never really said all those things I said.
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If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
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A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.
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It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.
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The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.
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I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
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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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Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
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The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.
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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?
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Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.
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Learning without thought is labour lost.