Confucius Quotes - Page 6

• First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

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  Spiritual, Order, Community

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• All people are the same; only their habits differ.

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  People, Habit

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• Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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  Friendship, Men, Truthful

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• Rotten wood cannot be carved.

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  Rotten, Statistics, Woods

  Confucius (2014). “The Analects”, p.1, Penguin

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• If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.

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  Way, Rich, Honorable

  Confucius (1998). “The Analects”, Counterpoint LLC

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• It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

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  Men, Law, Dominance

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• To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

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  Unjust Society, Justice, Honor

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• The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Helping, Seize The Opportunity

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• An image is better than one thousand words

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  Photography, Thousand

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• Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

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  Nursing, Men, Nurse

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• There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

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  Kindness, Men, Evil

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• Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

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  Appreciate, Chinese, Taste

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• You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

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  Honesty, Men, Fool

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• A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

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  Glasses, Hammers, Steel

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• Heaven means to be one with God.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

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  Wise, Spiritual, People

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• If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

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  Inspirational, Mistake, Profound

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• When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.

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  Men, Law, Wish

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• One joy dispels a hundred cares.

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  Peace, Healing, Joy

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• The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

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  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

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  Life, Death, Understanding

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

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• Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

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  Achievement, Desire, Done

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

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• Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

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  Life, Success, Humble

  "Library of Universal History". Book by Israel Smith Clare, p. 539, 1899.

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• I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

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  Dignity, Confucianism, Virtue

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.

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  Heart, Enemy, Target

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