Confucius quotes - page 4

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. (Confucius)
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.
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Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform.
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An angry man is full of poison.
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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
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When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.
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Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.
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A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.
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The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity. (Confucius)
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
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The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.
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How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.
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Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.
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The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.
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The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.
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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness. (Confucius)
Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.
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Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
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To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
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The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.
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