Confucius Quotes
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For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.
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It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.
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A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.
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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
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A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
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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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Make fair agreements and stick to them.
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The cautious seldom err.
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The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.
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In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.
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The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.
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Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.
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When the wind blows,the grass bends.
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The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied.
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Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
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If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.
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A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
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The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
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Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving.
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These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.
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When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.