Confucius Quotes - Page 29

• It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

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  Beauty, Wise, Names

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

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• A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

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  Gentleman, Pay, Vulgar

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)

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  Daughter, Criminals, Facts

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• Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.

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  Son, Talent

  Confucius (1932). “The Wisdom of Confucius: A Collection of the Ethical Sayings of Confucius and of His Disciples”

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• By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

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  Men, Reviews, Teach

  Analects ch. 2, v. 11 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

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  Integrity, Sacrifice, Men

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

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• To love a thing means wanting it to live.

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  Love, Mean

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics

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• The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

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  Men, Desire, Doe

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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• At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

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  Heart, Boundaries, Seventies

  Confucius (1964). “The Analects of Confucius”

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• All things are already complete in oneself.

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  All Things, Oneself

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• From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

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  Ambition, Men, Example

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.1142, Delphi Classics

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• What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

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  People, Excellence, Virtue

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.356, Courier Corporation

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• I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

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  Character, Men, Moral

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied

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  Reflection, Mirrors, Objects

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• If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

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  Life, Morning, Regret

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.135

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• How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.

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  Spiritual, Looks, All Things

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.261

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• Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

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  Wisdom, Respect, Philosophical

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

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• I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

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  Teaching, Oneness, Antiquity

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• Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

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  Fighting, Evil, Mind

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

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  Principles, Events, Goes On

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

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• The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

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  Lying, Character, Mean

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.274, Courier Corporation

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• If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

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  Yoga, Thinking, Hands

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

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  Inspirational, Principles, Truthful

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