Confucius Quotes - Page 20

• Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

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  Art, Kindness, Mind

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am not an originator but a transmitter.

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• The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

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  Beautiful, Children, Parenting

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• The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

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  Real, Justice, Diversity

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

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  Thank You, Support, Parent

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• Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

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  Learning, Chinese, Programming

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• To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

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  Love, Delight, Knows

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• A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.

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  Men, Conflict, Ifs

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

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  Children, Father, Men

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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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• Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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  Education, Teaching, Learning

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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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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• The man of humanity delights in mountains

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  Men, Humanity, Mountain

  Confucius, Chichung Huang (1997). “The Analects of Confucius”, p.84, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

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  Character, Men, Pay

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• Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

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  Life, Breaking Down, Break

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• Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

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  Done, Want, Lifetime

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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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