Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.
Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties
Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.
The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
One joy dispels a hundred cares.
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.
It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.
If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.
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