Confucius Quotes
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A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.
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Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.
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Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
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Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.
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When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.
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When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
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Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.
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The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.
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Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.
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Rotten wood cannot be carved.
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He who will not economize will agonize.
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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death.
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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
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A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
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When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
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The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.
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If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.
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How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.
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Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
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Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
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Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.