Confucius Quotes, Order Quotes, Mind Quotes

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.

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Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

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I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

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Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

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The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

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The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

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Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

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To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

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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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Don't let your past determine your destiny.

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Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously

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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

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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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