Confucius Quotes - Page 35

• How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

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  Practice, Long, People

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• Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

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  Men, Knowing, Spirit

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• Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

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  Use, Cannons

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• The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

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  Men, Want, Ability

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• What is necessary is to rectify names.

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  Names, Rectify

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

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  Stars, Mean, Exercise

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

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  Home, Sacrifice, People

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• The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

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  Art, Support, Way

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

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• To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

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  Sympathy, Heart, Righteousness

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• By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

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  Mother, Father, Hands

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

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  Beautiful, Wise, Men

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• There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

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  Men, Understanding, May

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

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  Kindness, Morality, Loving Kindness

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• While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

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  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

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  Neighbor, Hermits

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• One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find.

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  Years, Would Be, Three

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• Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

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  Meditation, Labor

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• Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

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  Firsts, Sincerity, Faithfulness

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• Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

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  Baseball, Men, Balls

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• The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.

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  Wise, Moving, Men

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

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  Love, Mother, Dream

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• The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

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  Men, Evil, Mind

  Confucius, William Edward Soothill (1910). “The Analects”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?

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  Characteristics, Ifs

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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