Confucius Quotes - Page 11

• Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

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  Eye, Bigger, Stomach

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• There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

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  Mean, Men, Virtuous

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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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• Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

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  Spiritual, Goodness, Enjoy

  Confucius, Edward Slingerland (2003). “Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries”, p.29, Hackett Publishing

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• To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

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  Pleasure

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• If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

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  Leadership, Dance, Teacher

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

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  Vices, Guests, Masters

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• The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

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  Winning, Trying, Genius

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• If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

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  Wisdom, Art, People

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• 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.

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  Integrity, Men, May

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.167

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• True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

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  Spring, Heart, Men

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• When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

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  Criticism, Failing, Strict

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• Sincerity is the way of heaven.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.413, Courier Corporation

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• What the wise seek is in themselves

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  Wise, Inspiration

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• If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.

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  Giving, Three, Want

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• To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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  Wisdom, True Friend, Knowledge

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

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  Men, Soul, Mustache

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• Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

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  Greatness, Practice, Annoyed

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius (Chapter I),

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• 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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  Men, Justice, Comfort

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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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• There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

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  Life, Passion, Men

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• I could see peace instead of this.

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  Forgiveness

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• If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

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  Teacher, Self Esteem, Men

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Happy New Year

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• An angry man is full of poison.

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  Anger, Men, Angry Man

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