Confucius Quotes
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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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A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.
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When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
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He who sling mud, lose ground.
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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
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A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.
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Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.
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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
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I followed my heart without breaking any rules.
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
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Don't let your past determine your destiny.
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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere – although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
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If we don't know life, how can we know death?
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Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
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The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
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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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Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.
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You cannot open a book without learning something.
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The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.
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The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
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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.