Confucius Quotes
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Heaven means to be one with God.
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If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
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The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
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The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.
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If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.
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I followed my heart without breaking any rules.
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It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop.
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If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.
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There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
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Learning without thought is labour lost.
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A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.
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If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
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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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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
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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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To become a leader, you must first become a human being.
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The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.