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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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

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The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

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Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

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I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

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Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

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The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

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The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

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For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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There is no fire like passion No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger, And no joy like the joy of freedom.

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