Confucius Quotes
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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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Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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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 know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.
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Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.
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Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
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There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.
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Heaven means to be one with God.
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The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.
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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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A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.
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In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.
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He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
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The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
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The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
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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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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.