Confucius Quotes - Page 21

• Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

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  Love, Philosophy, Educational

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

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  Honesty, Poverty, Wealth

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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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• Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

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  Character, Greatness, Men

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.27, Delphi Classics

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• When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (1967). “Li chi: book of rites: An encyclopedia of ancient ceremonial usages, religious creeds, and social institutions”

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• It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop.

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  Differences, Long, Making A Difference

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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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  Men, Intelligence, May

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

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  Dirty, Ocean, Crosses

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• Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

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  Grief, Mourning

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

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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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  Men, Gentleman, Doe

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• When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning."

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  Men, People, Perfect

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

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  Son, Three, Produce

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• The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

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  Injury, Economy

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• Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

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  Love, Water, Delight

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

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  Teacher, Self Esteem, Men

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

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  Happiness, Knowing, Knowing Something

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• Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

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  Science, Tree, Bark

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• The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.

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  Mean, People, Perfection

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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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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• I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

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  House, Looks, World

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• The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

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  Men, Gentleman, Small Man

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• A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

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  Men, Errors, May

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

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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 failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

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  Grief, Moving, Growth

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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