Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.
Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.
To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.
It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.
He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity
If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
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.
The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.
The person of benevolence never worries.
There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.
The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.
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