Confucius Quotes, Life Quotes, Rivers Quotes

Time flows away like the water in the river.

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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

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Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

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I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

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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.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

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Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

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A picture is poem without words.

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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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Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?

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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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

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In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

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Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

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Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

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