Confucius Quotes - Page 33

• Behind every smile there's teeth.

  Confucius

  Teeth, Behinds

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• There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

  Confucius

  Art, Kindness, Home

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Men, Yield

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

  Confucius

  Hands, Wish, Confucianism

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.57, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Vain, Desolation

  Confucius (1996). “Le Lun Yü en français”

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• The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

  Confucius

  Knowledge Learning, Silent, Satiety

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

  Confucius

  Book, Three, May

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• Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.

  Confucius

  Want

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• Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

  Confucius

  Past, Chinese, Today

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• Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

  Confucius

  Meditation, Labor

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• To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

  Confucius

  Country, Men, Order

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• A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

  Confucius

  Heart, Clothes, Knights

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.

  Confucius

  Done, Language, Said

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• Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

  Confucius

  Integrity, Men, Morality

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• The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

  Confucius

  Men, Poverty, Should

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.228

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• Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

  Confucius

  Doors, House, Able

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• The good man does not grieve
  that other people do not recognize his merits.
  His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

  Confucius

  Men, Grieving, People

  Confucius (1964). “The Analects of Confucius”

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• Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

  Confucius

  Wise, Mistake, Failure

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

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• A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.

  Confucius

  Country, Business, War

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• It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

  Confucius

  Winter, Cypresses, Evergreens

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• The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.

  Confucius

  Wise, Reality, Men

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• A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Calm, Vulgar

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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