Confucius

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To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.
- Confucius
Collection: Wisdom
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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Collection: Positive
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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
- Confucius
Collection: Men
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If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
- Confucius
Collection: Inspiring
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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
- Confucius
Collection: Cat
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The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct
- Confucius
Collection: Men
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Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.
- Confucius
Collection: Remember
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Every journey starts with a single step.
- Confucius
Collection: Journey
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Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.
- Confucius
Collection: Mistake
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The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.
- Confucius
Collection: Army
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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
- Confucius
Collection: Responsibility
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Don't let your past determine your destiny.
- Confucius
Collection: Past
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A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.
- Confucius
Collection: Glasses
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The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.
- Confucius
Collection: Doe
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The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.
- Confucius
Collection: Distance
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If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
- Confucius
Collection: Success
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Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.
- Confucius
Collection: Perfect
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The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.
- Confucius
Collection: Wind
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
- Confucius
Collection: Happiness
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Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
- Confucius
Collection: Love
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There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
- Confucius
Collection: Son
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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
- Confucius
Collection: Love
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
- Confucius
Collection: Love
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Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.
- Confucius
Collection: Funny
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Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.
- Confucius
Collection: Worry
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Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.
- Confucius
Collection: Character
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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
- Confucius
Collection: Men
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Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
- Confucius
Collection: Light
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If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.
- Confucius
Collection: Done
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When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.
- Confucius
Collection: Wise
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A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.
- Confucius
Collection: Dance
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To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.
- Confucius
Collection: People
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The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.
- Confucius
Collection: Character
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An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.
- Confucius
Collection: Opportunity
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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
- Confucius
Collection: Would Be
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A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.
- Confucius
Collection: Men
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Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.
- Confucius
Collection: Settling
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Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.
- Confucius
Collection: Answers
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He who is really kind, can never be unhappy
- Confucius
Collection: Love
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Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.
- Confucius
Collection: Education
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A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.
- Confucius
Collection: Tools
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You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go
- Confucius
Collection: Way
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Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
- Confucius
Collection: Relationship
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Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
- Confucius
Collection: Adversity
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Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly
- Confucius
Collection: People
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Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.
- Confucius
Collection: Wise
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Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.
- Confucius
Collection: Love
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A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
- Confucius
Collection: Change
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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?
- Confucius
Collection: Education