Confucius Quotes, Book Quotes, Teaching Quotes

Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.

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Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

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There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

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What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

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

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A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

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Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

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From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

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If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

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The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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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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The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

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Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

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