Confucius Quotes - Page 31

• Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

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  Inspirational, Principles, Truthful

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• Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.

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  Country, Father, Son

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

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• Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

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  Dangerous

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• Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

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  Love, Wise, Kindness

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

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  Art, Kindness, Home

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

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  Doe, Today, Treatment

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• He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

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  Men, Enemy, Faults

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• The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.

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  Lying, Heart, Moral

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• The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

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  Games, Play, Gentleman

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• I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

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  Heart, My Heart

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

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• If we don't know life, how can we know death?

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  Life, Death, Philosophical

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• I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.

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  Giving Up, Hate, Practice

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• Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

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  Teacher, Men, Yield

  Confucius (2009). “The Confucian Analects, the Great Learning & the Doctrine of the Mean”, p.304, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

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  Punishment, People, Reform

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

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• In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

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  Book, Three, May

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• Humanity is the equity of the heart.

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  Heart, Humanity, Equity

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• Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

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  Past, Chinese, Today

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• When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

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  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

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  Honesty, Poverty, Wealth

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• Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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• A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

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  Men, Good Man, Constancy

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

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• Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

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  Integrity, Men, Morality

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• The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

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  Men, Poverty, Should

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.228

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• In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

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  Order, Mind, Wish

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