Confucius Quotes - Page 22

• Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

  Confucius

  Love, Water, Delight

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

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  Life, Business, Philosophical

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• To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

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  Military, War, Army

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

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  Heaven, May, Regulation

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.283

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• Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

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  Tea, Mind, Body

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• Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.

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  Shining, Charity, Sun

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, p. 428, 1824.

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• A man of wisdom delights in water.

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  Men, Rivers, Water

  Confucius, Chichung Huang (1997). “The Analects of Confucius”, p.84, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

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  Art, Kindness, Mind

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• The object of the superior man is truth.

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  Truth, Philosophical, Men

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

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  Kings, Anger, Army

  Confucius (1967). “Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions”

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• A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

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  Responsibility, Gentleman, Demand

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• If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

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  People, Desire, Be Good

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• The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

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  Essence, Use

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• Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

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  Trying, Use, Deceiving

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

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  Positive, Men, Demand

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• Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

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  Middle, Isolated

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• Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.

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  Funny, Life, Running

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• A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

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  Deeds And Words, Gentleman, Would Be

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The more people know, the more they forgive.

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  Forgiveness, People, Forgiving

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• 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.

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  Voice, Might, Remember

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• he who will not economize will agonize

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• The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

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  Men, Earnest, Superior Man

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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

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  Dignity, Confucianism, Virtue

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

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  Transformation, Process, Rigidity

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• The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

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  Distance, Men, Three

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.206

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