Confucius Quotes
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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
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Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.
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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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If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.
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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
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To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.
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The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
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Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
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When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them.
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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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The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
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Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.
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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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If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.
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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
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The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.
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Justice for All in the World.
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Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.
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There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.
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Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.
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To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.