Quotes by Confucious

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  • Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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  • Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
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  • Study the past if you would define the future.
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  • When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
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  • It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
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  • Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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  • What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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  • The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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  • Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
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  • Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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  • He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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  • What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
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  • To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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  • When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
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  • [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
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  • Have no friends not equal to yourself.
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  • Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
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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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  • Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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  • Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
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  • If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
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  • I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
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  • A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
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  • A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
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  • By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they are carried far apart.
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