Confucius Quotes - Page 32

• Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

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  Speech, Action, Worried

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• If we don't know life, how can we know death?

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  Life, Death, Philosophical

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• Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously

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  Order, Law, Practice

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• Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

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  One Day, Would Be, Able

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Book Four, Section 4.6),

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• If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

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  Punishment, People, Expectations

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• Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

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  Punishment, People, Reform

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

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• The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

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  Learning, Faithful, Way

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

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• The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

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  Failure, Moon, Reality

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• In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

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  Order, Mind, Wish

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• A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

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  Helping Others, Men, Humanity

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• In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.

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  Done, Alive, Want

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.657, Delphi Classics

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• He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

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  Men, Enemy, Faults

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• Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

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  Men, Height, Higher

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• The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

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  Life, Men, Lucky

  Analects ch. 6, v. 17 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.

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  Country, Father, Son

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

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• The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

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  Inspiration, Moving, Men

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• To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?

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  People, Worry, Joy

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• The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

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  Pigs, Riches, Fool

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• Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

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  Law, Practice, People

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• I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

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  Heart, My Heart

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

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  Character, Men, Archery

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

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  Doe, Today, Treatment

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• Grieve not that men do not know you;
  grieve that you do not know men.

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  Men, Grieving, Know Me

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

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