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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Topic: Actions
Source: None
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The object of the superior man is truth.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Topic: All About the Self
Source: None
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Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler.
Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important.
All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age.
Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive.
Topic: Confidence
Source: None
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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Topic: Consequences
Source: None
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To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Topic: Cowardice
Source: None
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If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Topic: Diligence
Source: None
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He who will not economize will have to agonize.
Topic: Economy
Source: None
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The cautious seldom err.
Topic: Errors
Source: Analects (bk. IV, ch. XXIII)
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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Topic: Faithfulness
Source: None
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Topic: Family
Source: None
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Topic: General Sayings
Source: None
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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it.
Topic: Gravity
Source: None
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Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius,
Topic: Heaven
Source: quoted by Frederic William Farrar in "Sermons--Eternal Hopes--What Heaven Is", last line
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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: None
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing
your proper role.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast
duck to drop in.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own
doorstep is unclean.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of
comfort.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten
years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and
examine ourselves.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a
pillow-I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we
fall.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Topic: Kindness
Source: None
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To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Topic: Kindness
Source: None
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Topic: Knowledge
Source: None
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If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?
Topic: Leaders
Source: None
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning
is perilous.
Topic: Learning
Source: Analects (bk. II, ch. XV)
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the
beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
Topic: Learning
Source: Analects (bk. XVII, ch. VIII)
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