Confucius Quotes - Page 8

• The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (1967). “Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions”

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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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• 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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• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

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• The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

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  Song, Teaching, Thinking

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

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• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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  Change, Time, Philosophical

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• If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

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  Helping Others, Desire, Want

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• Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.

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  Relationship, Funny Relationship, Quality

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.507, Delphi Classics

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• In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

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  Education, Men, Self

  Confucius (1973). “A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects”, Columbia Univ Pr

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• First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.

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  Order, Mind, Firsts

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• Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

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  Life, Stars, Clever

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• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

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  Music, Wisdom, Art

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• A heart set on love will do no wrong.

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  Heart

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he is careful to be kind, in his manner to be respectful, in his words to be sincere, in his work to be diligent. When in doubt he is careful to ask for information; when angry he has a care for the consequences; and when he sees a chance for gain, he thinks carefully whether the pursuits of it would be right.

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  Caring, Thinking, Gentleman

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• To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

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  Happiness, Letting Go, Mean

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• You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

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  Reading, Ignorance, Self

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• The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

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  Teacher, Doe, Way

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• The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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  Stress, Humility, Men

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• Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.

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  Gratitude, Needs, Imagine

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• He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

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  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

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  Life, Doors, Use

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• These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

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  Humility, Order, Ideas

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• The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

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  Men, Talking, Practice

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