Confucius Quotes

551–479 BC, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher · Wikipedia · Wikidata
quotes
93
topics
12
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“To be with God.”
Heaven
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“To go too far is as bad as to fall short.”
Excess
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“To love a thing means wanting it to live.”
Love
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“When anger rises, think of the consequences.”
Anger
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“When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.”
Prosperity
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“Study the past if you would divine the future.”
Past
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“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.”
Silence
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“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Beauty
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“Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.”
Faults
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“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
Self-control
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“Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.”
Faithfulness
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“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
Faults
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“Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.”
Sincerity
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“The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.”
Faults
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“Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.”
Change
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“I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.”
Virtue
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“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
Sorrow
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“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
Mistakes
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“The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.”
Family
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“Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.”
Worry
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“What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.”
Example
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“Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?”
Love
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“They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.”
Change
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“The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.”
Superiority
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“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
Family
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“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.”
Words
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