Confucius Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Principles Quotes

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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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

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A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

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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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I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

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To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

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To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

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The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

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He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

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A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

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Time flows away like the water in the river.

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The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

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Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

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The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

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The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.

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I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

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Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

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Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

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