Confucius

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in getting up every time we do.

Confucius

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

Confucius

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Confucius

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Confucius

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Confucius

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or and star.

Confucius

It does not matter how slowlu you go so long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Men´s natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

Confucius

Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget the danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

Confucius

To be able under all circumstances to to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Confucius

To se what is right and not to do it is want of courage.

Confucius

To se what is right and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Confucius

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

When we see men of contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Confucius

Fine words and insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Confucius

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turns towards it.

Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Confucius

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

I am not one who was born into the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Confucius

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

Confucius

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Confucius

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parent, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with friends, his words are sincere- although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that the has.

Confucius

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

Confucius

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

The cautious seldom err.

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The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Confucius

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Confucius

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends- such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Confucius

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Confucius

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Confucius

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of dsitress.

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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth…lust. When he is strong…quarrelsomeness. When he is old…covetousness.

Confucius

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

Confucius

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Confucius

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbours.

Confucius

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Confucius

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius

When a man´s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

Confucius

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it- this is knowledge.

Confucius

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow- I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honours aquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

Confucius

Without an aquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

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