Confucius Quotes, Wise Quotes, Adversity Quotes

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.

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He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

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Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

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Time flows away like the water in the river.

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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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A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

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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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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

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He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

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Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

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A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

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When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

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Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

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Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

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He who sling mud, lose ground.

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To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

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Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.

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