Confucius Quotes, Heart Quotes

I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

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The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

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There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

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Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

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Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

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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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When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

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The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.

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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

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roads were made for journeys not destinations

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For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

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It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

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I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

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The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

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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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Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

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The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

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