Confucius Quotes - Page 18

• What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you.

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  Hate, Behind You, Behinds

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• In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

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  Home, Men, Faults

  Confucius (1964). “The Analects of Confucius”

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

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  Chinese, Fine Words, Vices

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.117

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• If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.

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  Trust, Leadership, Respect

  "The Analects".

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• A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

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  Exercise, Men, Sorrow

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• To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

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  Taoism, Needs, Tao

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• He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

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  Dirty, Ocean, Crosses

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• The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

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  Army, Chinese, Mind

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• There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

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  Thank You, Support, Parent

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• If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear.

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  Anxiety, Spirituality, Ashamed

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• What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

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  Chinese, Wish

  Confucius (1996). “Le Lun Yü en français”

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• He who sling mud, lose ground.

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  Mud, Loses

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• Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

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  Spiritual, People, World

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• There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

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  Son, Three, Produce

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• A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.

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  Men, Conflict, Ifs

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

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  Beautiful, Children, Parenting

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• A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

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  Men, Anxiety, Superior Man

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• Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

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  Life, Breaking Down, Break

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• A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

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  Children, Father, Men

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• Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

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  Heart, Kingdoms, Sincere

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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• A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

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  Dance, Character, Dancing

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• The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

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  Heart, Character, Men

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• Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

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  Occupation, May, Fit

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• Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

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  Happiness, Knowing, Knowing Something

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• The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

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  Men, Deeds, Great Men

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