Confucius Quotes - Page 27

• We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

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  Eye, Honor, Should

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• The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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  Life, Success, Philosophical

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

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• If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

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  Done, Way, Firsts

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• Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

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  Kindness, Real, People

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• I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

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  Women, Men, Virtue

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• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

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  Mistake, Educational, Failure

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Never tire to study. And to teach to others

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  Study, Tire, Teach

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• Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

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  People, Sound, Influence

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.297

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• If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

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  Spiritual, Silence, Silent

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• The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

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  Positive, Men, Demand

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• Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

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  Honesty, Principles, Yoke

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• When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

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  Exercise, Principles, Path

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.290

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• The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

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  Food, Cutting, Cooking

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• Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

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  Revenge, Blessing, Boredom

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• Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

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  Clever, Justice, Virtue

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• The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

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  Men, Evil, Mind

  Confucius, William Edward Soothill (1910). “The Analects”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Humanity is the equity of the heart.

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  Heart, Humanity, Equity

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• One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

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  Men, Law, Long

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

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  Wisdom, Real, Understanding

  "The wisdom of Confucius".

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• If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

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  Mind, Worship, Engaged

  "The Works of Confucius".

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• Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

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  Men, Propriety

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• There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

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  Character, Secret, Confucianism

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.384, Courier Corporation

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• There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.

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  Confidence, War, Military

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• The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

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  Heaven, Earth, May

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.420, Cosimo, Inc.

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