Confucius Quotes - Page 26

• Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

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  Sincerity, Faithfulness, Highest

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• The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

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  Differences, Earth, Facts

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• When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.

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  Inspire, Breathe

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• If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

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  Life, Mountain, Earth

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• Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

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  Learning, Ignorance, Achievement

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• Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

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  Educational, Goal, Missing

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

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  Blow, Government, Wind

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

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  Kings, Anger, Army

  Confucius (1967). “Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions”

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• Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

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  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

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  Love, Learning, May

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• The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

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  Honesty, Men, Life Is

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

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  Strong, Giving Up, Progress

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

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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

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  Fate, Today, Wheels

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• For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

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  Life, Revenge, Justice

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• When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

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  Son, Chinese, Duty

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• Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

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  Learning, Goal, Losing

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• On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

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  Moving, Hands, Law

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• Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

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  Watches, Action, Kind

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• The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.

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  Life, Thinking, Gentleman

  "The Analects of Confucius".

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• If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

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  Knows, Ifs

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• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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  Family, Strength, Peace

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• Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

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  Dance, Men, Giving

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• I could see peace instead of this.

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  Forgiveness

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• Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

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  Adversity, Sacrifice, Race

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 46, 1895.

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• He who chases two rabbits, catches none.

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  Two, Rabbits

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