Confucius Quotes
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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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Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk.
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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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It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
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Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.
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I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
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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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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
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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.
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When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them.
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To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.
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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.
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Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go.
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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
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You cannot open a book without learning something.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?
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I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
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Whatever heaven ordains is best.
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I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
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If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.