Confucius Quotes - Page 19

• Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

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  Lost, Labor

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• It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

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  Leadership, Order, People

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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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  Gains, Prosperity, States

  Confucius (2013). “The Great Learning (Unabridged)”, p.1, e-artnow

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• We should worship as though the deity were present.

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  Deities, Worship, Should

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• It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "The Analects".

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• I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

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  Love, Love Is, Virtue

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

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  Motivation, Army, Men

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "The wisdom of Confucius".

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• Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.148

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• Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

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  Knows

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• When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

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  Transformation, Process, Rigidity

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• A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

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  Men, Good Man, Constancy

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

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  Distance, Men, Space

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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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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  Friendship, Smile, Shadow

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• If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

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  Men, Middle, Rate

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

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  Snow, Complaining, Neighbor

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• What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you.

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  Hate, Behind You, Behinds

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• A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

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  Kindness, Inspiration, Charity

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• Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform.

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  Heaven, Brilliant, Influence

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

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  Men, May, Study

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.193, Courier Corporation

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• If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.

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  Loyalty, Mistake, Gentleman

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• Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

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  Ruins, Virtue, Profession

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

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  Spiritual, People, World

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• Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

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  Character, Culture, Music Is

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