Confucius Quotes, Grief Quotes, Moving Quotes

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

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Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.

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An angry person is always full of poison.

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If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

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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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One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

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Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

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While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

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To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

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All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

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

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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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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.

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In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

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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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The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

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