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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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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 The Search For Riches Were Sure To Be Successful, Though I Should Become A Groom With A Whip In My Hand To Get Them, I Will Do So. As The Search May Not Be Successful, I Will Follow After That Which I Love.

If Language Is Not Correct, Then What Is Said Is Not What Is Meant; If What Is Said Is Not What Is Meant, Then What Must Be Done Remains Undone; If This Remains Undone, Morals And Art Will Deteriorate; If Justice Goes Astray, The People Will Stand About In Helpless Confusion. Hence There Must Be No Arbitrariness In What Is Said. This Matters Above Everything.

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When Words Lose Their Meaning, People Lose Their Liberty.

Coarse Rice To Eat, Water To Drink, My Bended Arm For A Pillow - Therein Is Happiness. Wealth And Rank Attained Through Immoral Means Are Nothing But Drifting Clouds.

The Superior Man, When Resting In Safety, Does Not Forget That Danger May Come. When In A State Of Security He Does Not Forget The Possibility Of Ruin. When All Is Orderly, He Does Not Forget That Disorder May Come. Thus His Person Is Not Endangered, And His States And All Their Clans Are Preserved.

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To Know That One Knows What One Knows, And To Know That One Doesn't Know What One Doesn't Know, There Lies True Wisdom.

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Many Seek Happiness Higher Than Men; Others Beneath Him. But Happiness Is The Same Height As Man.

Everything Has Its Beauty But Not Everyone Sees It. To See It A Person Only Needs To Imagine How It Could Be Worse.

Those People Who Develop The Ability To Continuously Acquire New And Better Forms Of Knowledge That They Can Apply To Their Work And To Their Lives Will Be The Movers And Shakers In Our Society For The Indefinite Future.

The Wheel Of Fortune Turns Round Incessantly, And Who Can Say To Himself, I Shall Today Be Uppermost.

Things Have Their Roots And Branches. Affairs Have Their Beginnings And Their Ends. To Know What Is First And What Is Last Will Lead One Near The Way.

One Joy Dispels A Hundred Cares.

There Are Three Unfilial Acts: The Greatest Of These Is The Failure To Produce Sons.

A Common Man Marvels At Uncommon Things. A Wise Man Marvels At The Commonplace.

A Man Living Without Conflicts, As If He Never Lives At All.

The Superior Man, Even When He Is Not Moving, Has A Feeling Of Reverence, And While He Speaks Not, He Has The Feeling Of Truthfulness.

The Path Is Not Far From Man. When Men Try To Pursue A Course, Which Is Far From The Common Indications Of Consciousness, This Course Cannot Be Considered The Path.

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If Language Is Not Rectified, Words Do Not Correspond To Meaning, And If Words Do Not Correspond To Meaning, Our Deeds Cannot Be Accomplished.

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Only One Who Bursts With Enthusiasm Do I Instruct; Only One Who Bubbles With Excitement Do I Enlighten. If I Hold Up One Corner And You Do Not Come Back To Me With The Other Three, I Do Not Continue The Lesson.

Tsze-kung Asked, “is There One Word With Which To Act In Accordance Throughout A Lifetime?” The Master Said, “is Not Reciprocity Such A Word? What You Do Not Want Done To Yourself, Do Not Do To Others.

When One Cultivates To The Utmost The Principles Of His Nature, And Exercises Them On The Principle Of Reciprocity, He Is Not Far From The Path.

In A Hamlet Of Ten Households, There Are Bound To Be Those Who Are My Equal In Doing Their Best For Others And In Being Trustworthy In What They Say, But They Are Unlikely To Be As Eager To Learn As I Am.

A Great Man Is Hard On Himself; A Small Man Is Hard On Others.

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He Who Speaks Without Modesty Will Find It Difficult To Make His Words Good.

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The Way Of The Superior Person Is Threefold; Virtuous, They Are Free From Anxieties; Wise They Are Free From Perplexities; And Bold They Are Free From Fear.

Do Not Wish For Quick Results, Nor Look For Small Advantages. If You Seek Quick Results, You Will Not Reach The Ultimate Goal. If You Are Led Astray By Small Advantages, You Will Never Accomplish Great Things.

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.

Make Fair Agreements And Stick To Them

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Education Breeds Confidence. Confidence Breeds Hope. Hope Breeds Peace.

Powerful Weapons

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Those Who Do Not Study Are Only Cattle Dressed Up In Men's Clothes.

The Man Of Noble Mind Seeks To Achieve The Good In Others And Not Their Evil. The Little-minded Man Is The Reverse Of This.

The Man Who Loves His Job Never Works A Day In His Life.

Respect The Gods, But Have As Little To Do With Them As Possible.

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What Is Necessary Is To Rectify Names.

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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.

Knowing Something Is Not As Good As Liking It. Liking Something Is Not As Good As Rejoicing In It.

Knowing Something

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Do Not Unto Another That You Would Hot Have Him Do Unto You. Thou Needest This Law Alone. It Is The Foundation Of All The Rest.

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The Administration Of Government Lies In Getting Proper Men. Such Men Are To Be Got By Means Of The Ruler's Own Character. That Character Is To Be Cultivated By His Treading In The Ways Of Duty. And The Treading Those Ways Of Duty Is To Be Cultivated By The Cherishing Of Benevolence.

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He Who Kisses Girl On Hillside Is Not Level

Do Unto Others As You Wish Others Do Unto You.

When You Are Laboring For Others, Let It Be With The Same Zeal As If It Were For Yourself.

To Be Wealthy And Honored In An Unjust Society Is A Disgrace.

All People Are The Same; Only Their Habits Differ.

The Green Reed Which Bends In The Wind Is Stronger Than The Mighty Oak Which Breaks In A Storm.

Ask Yourself Constantly, "what Is The Right Thing To Do?" Behave Toward Everyone As If Receiving A Great Guest.

The Man Who Asks A Question Is A Fool For A Minute, The Man Who Does Not Ask Is A Fool For Life.

Silence Is The True Friend That Never Betrays.

The Expectations Of Life Depend Upon Diligence; The Mechanic That Would Perfect His Work Must First Sharpen His Tools.

The Vices Come As Passengers, Visit Us As Guest And Stay As Masters.

Recompense Injury With Justice, And Recompense Kindness With Kindness.

When You See A Good Man, Try To Emulate His Example, And When You See A Bad Man, Search Yourself For His Faults.

The Superior Man Is Distressed By The Limitations Of His Ability; He Is Not Distressed By The Fact That Men Do Not Recognize The Ability That He Has.

Instead Of Being Concerned That You Have No Office, Be Concerned To Think How You May Fit Yourself For Office. Instead Of Being Concerned That You Are Not Known, Seek To Be Worthy Of Being Known.

At Fifteen My Mind Was Directed To Study, And At Thirty I Knew Where To Stand.

Heaven Begat Virtue In Me; What Can Man Do Unto Me?

The Love To Wisdom Is Getting Closer To The Own Bright Path.

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A Wise Man Seeks By Music To Strengthen His Soul: The Thoughtless One Uses It To Stifle His Fears.

Don't Let Your Past Determine Your Destiny.

I Used To Take On Trust A Man's Deeds After Having Listened To His Words. Now Having Listened To A Man's Words I Go On To Observe His Deeds.

The Master Said, “a True Gentleman Is One Who Has Set His Heart Upon The Way. A Fellow Who Is Ashamed Merely Of Shabby Clothing Or Modest Meals Is Not Even Worth Conversing With.” (analects 4.9)

Great Is The Man Who Can Overcome The World, But Greater Still Is The Man Who Can Overcome Himself, For He Will Have The World Spinning On The Palm Of His Hand.

A Nation's Character Is Typified By Its Dancers.

He Who Sling Mud, Lose Ground.

In Old Days Men Studied For The Sake Of Self-improvement; Nowadays Men Study In Order To Impress Other People.

In Your Promises Cleave To What Is Right, And You Will Be Able To Fulfill Your Word.

The Beginning Of Wisdom Is To Call Things By Their Proper Name.

One Who Has Accumulated Virtue Will Certainly Also Possess Eloquence; But He Who Has Eloquence Doe Not Necessarily Possess Virtue.

The Gentleman Calls Attention To The Good Points In Others; He Does Not Call Attention To Their Defects. The Small Man Does Just The Reverse Of This.

When You Locate Good In Yourself, Approve Of It With Determination. When You Locate Evil In Yourself, Despise It As Something Detestable.

To Be Wronged Is Nothing Unless You Continue To Remember It.

The Contrived Language And The Flattering Attitude Rarely Come With The Virtue.

Men's Natures Are Alike; It Is Their Habits That Separate Them.

Those Who Know The Truth Are Not Equal To Those Who Love It.

The Gentleman Is Calm And At Ease. The Gentleman Is Dignified But Not Proud; The Small Man Is Proud But Not Dignified.

Knowledge Is Merely Brilliance In Organization Of Ideas And Not Wisdom. The Truly Wise Person Goes Beyond Knowledge.

He Who Fails To Prepare, Prepares To Fail

I Never Really Said All Those Things I Said

Be Faithful And True Of Word; Let Thy Walk Be Plain And Lowly: Thou Wilt Get On, Though In Savage Land. If Thy Words Be Not Faithful And True, Thy Walk Plain And Lowly, Wilt Thou Get On, Though In Thine Own Home? Standing, See These Words Ranged Before Thee; Driving, See Them Written Upon The Yoke. Then Thou Wilt Get On.

An Image Is Better Than One Thousand Words

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.

A Person Of Character Takes As Much Trouble To Discover What Is Right As The Lesser Men Take To Discover What Will Pay.

Those Who Cannot Forgive Others Break The Bridge Over Which They Themselves Must Pass.

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.

Look Not At What Is Contrary To Propriety; Listen Not To What Is Contrary To Propriety; Speak Not What Is Contrary To Propriety; Make No Movement Which Is Contrary To Propriety.

To Acknowledge Our Faults When We Are Blamed, Is Modesty; To Discover Them To One's Friends In Ingenuousness, Is Confidence; But To Preach Them To All The World, If One Does Not Take Care, Is Pride.

I Am Not Bothered By The Fact That I Am Not Understood. I Am Bothered When I Do Not Know Others.

If We Don't Know Life, How Can We Know Death?

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.

A Good Man Will Certainly Also Possess Courage; But A Brave Man Is Not Necessarily Good.

When The Perfect Order Prevails, The World Is Like A Home Shared By All. Leaders Are Capable And Virtuous. Everyone Loves And Respects Their Own Parents And Children As Well As The Parents And Children Of Others. The Old Are Cared For, Adults Have Jobs, Children Are Nourished And Educated. There Is A Means Of Support For All Those Who Are Disabled Or Find Themselves Alone In The World. Everyone Has An Appropriate Role To Play In The Family And Society. Devotion To Public Duty Leaves No Place For Idleness. Scheming For Ill Gain Is Unknown. Sharing Displaces Selfishness And Materialism.

Never Contract Friendship With A Man That Is Not Better Than Thyself.

Choose A Job You Love, And You Will Never Have To Work A Day In Your Life.

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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Act With Kindness But Do Not Expect Gratitude.

Express Yourself

To Find The Tao, There Is Nowhere You Need To Search. If It Is Not Inside You, It Is Not The Tao.

A Hammer Shatters Glass But It Also Forges Steel.

Friendship With The Upright, With The Truthful And With The Well Informed Is Beneficial. Friendship With Those Who Flatter, With Those Who Are Meek And Who Compromise With Principles, And With Those Who Talk Cleverly Is Harmful.

The Man Who Is Master Of Himself Drinks Gravely And Wisely.

Wealth And Rank Are What Men Desire, But Unless They Be Obtained In The Right Way They May Not Be Possessed. Poverty And Obscurity Are What Men Detest; But Unless Prosperity Be Brought About In The Right Way, They Are Not To Be Abandoned.

Silence Is A True Friend Who Never Betrays.

Be Loyal To Yourself, Charitable To Neighbours, Nothing More.

Signs And Symbols Rule The World, Not Words Nor Laws.

An Oppressive Government Is More To Be Feared Than A Tiger.

Have No Friends Not Equal To Yourself.

We Can Know A Person By Observing His Behaviour, Understanding The Reasons For His Actions And Ascertaining His Intentions. If We Do This, How Can We Not Know Him?

He Who Exercises Government By Means Of His Virtue May Be Compared To The North Polar Star, Which Keeps Its Place And All The Stars Turn Towards It.

Settle One Difficulty, And You Keep A Hundred Away.

Virtuous People Often Revenge Themselves For The Constraints To Which They Submit By The Boredom Which They Inspire.

If The Gentleman Is Not Serious, He Will Not Be Respected, And His Learning Will Not Be On A Firm Foundation. He Considers Loyalty And Faithfulness To Be Fundamental, Has No Friends Who Are Not Like Him, And When He Has Made Mistakes, He Is Not Afraid Of Correcting Them.

There Is Nothing More Visible Than What Is Secret, And Nothing More Manifest Than What Is Minute.

When You Meet Someone Better Than Yourself, Turn Your Thoughts To Becoming His Equal. When You Meet Someone Not As Good As You Are, Look Within And Examine Your Own Self.

We Should Feel Sorrow, But Not Sink Under Its Oppression; The Heart Of A Wise Man Should Resemble A Mirror, Which Reflects Every Object Without Being Sullied By Any

Love Should Start From People Close To Us, Then Be Extended To Other People, To Strangers, And Eventually To The World

I Followed My Heart Without Breaking Any Rules.

The Superior Person Gathers His Weapons Together In Order To Provide Against The Unforeseen.

The Superior Man Governs Men, According To Their Nature, With What Is Proper To Them, And As Soon As They Change What Is Wrong, He Stops.

A Superior Man Is One Who Is Free From Fear And Anxieties

All Things Are Already Complete In Oneself.

The Man Of Wisdom Is Never Of Two Minds; The Man Of Benevolence Never Worries; The Man Of Courage Is Never Afraid.

Respect The Gods And The Devils But Keep Them At A Distance

The Way You Cut Your Meat Reflects The Way You Live.

One Who Can Move Mountains Start With The Little Stones.

We Should Feel Sorrow, But Not Sink Under Its Oppression.

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.

A Superior Man May Be Made To Go To The Well, But He Cannot Be Made To Go Down Into It. He May Be Imposed Upon, But He Cannot Be Fooled.

Listen Much, Keep Silent When In Doubt, And Always Take Heed Of The Tongue; Thou Wilt Make Few Mistakes. See Much, Beware Of Pitfalls, And Always Give Heed To Thy Walk; Thou Wilt Have Little To Rue. If Thy Words Are Seldom Wrong, Thy Deeds Leave Little To Rue, Pay Will Follow.

There Are Three Marks Of A Superior Man: Being Virtuous, He Is Free From Anxiety; Being Wise, He Is Free From Perplexity; Being Brave, He Is Free From Fear.

That A Man Lives Is Because He Is Straight. That A Man Who Dupes Others Survives Is Because He Has Been Fortunate Enough To Be Spared.

Benevolence Is The Characteristic Element Of Humanity.

Characteristics

Confucius Say... Politician Is One Who Shakes Your Hand Before Elections And Your Confidence After.

To Study And Constantly, Is This Not A Pleasure? To Have Friends Come From Far Away Places, Is This Not A Joy? If People Do Not Recognize Your Worth, But This Does Not Worry You, Are You Not A True Gentleman?

When You Know A Thing, To Hold That You Know It, And When You Do Not Know A Thing, To Allow That You Do Not Know It - This Is Knowledge.

The Master Said, 'quietly To Store Up Knowledge In My Mind, To Learn Without Flagging, To Teach Without Growing Weary, These Present Me With No Difficulties.'

They Must Often Change, Who Would Be Constant In Happiness Or Wisdom.

Do Not Impose On Others What You Yourself Do Not Desire.

He Who Merely Knows Right Principles Is Not Equal To Him Who Loves Them.

If You Know, Say You Know. If You Don't Know, Say You Don't Know.

Heaven Means To Be One With God.

The Master Said, The Case Is Like That Of Someone Raising A Mound. If He Stops Working, The Fact That It Perhaps Needed Only One More Basketful Makes No Difference; I Stay Where I Am. Whereas Even If He Has Not Got Beyond Leveling The Ground, But Is Still At Work, The Fact That He Has Only Tilted One Basketful Of Earth Makes No Difference. I Go To Help Him.

If I Were Travelling With Two Partners, One Virtuous And One Dishonest, Both Would Be Useful As Teachers. I Would Perceive What's Good Of The First One And I Would Imitate Him Whereas I Would Try To Correct In Me The Defects I May See In The Second One.

At 15 I Set My Heart On Learning; At 30 I Firmly Took My Stand; At 40 I Had No Delusions; At 50 I Knew The Mandate Of Heaven; At 60 My Ear Was Attuned; At 70 I Followed My Heart's Desire Without Overstepping The Boundaries Of Right.

To Be Truly Happy And Contented, You Must Let Go Of What It Means To Be Happy Or Content.

Be Versed In Ancient Lore, And Familiarize Yourself With The Modern; Then May You Become Teachers.

Look At The Means Which A Man Employs, Consider His Motives, Observe His Pleasures. A Man Simply Cannot Conceal Himself!

When The Superior Man Eats He Does Not Try To Stuff Himself; At Rest He Does Not Seek Perfect Comfort; He Is Diligent In His Work And Careful In Speech. He Avails Himself To People Of The Tao And Thereby Corrects Himself. This Is The Kind Of Person Of Whom You Can Say, "he Loves Learning."

Before You Embark On A Journey Of Revenge, Dig Two Graves.

Keep It Simple And Focus On What Matters. Don't Let Yourself Be Overwhelmed.

Only After Winter Comes Do We Know That The Pine And The Cypress Are The Last To Fade.

Expect Much From Yourself And Little From Others And You Will Avoid Incurring Resentments

The Superior Man Is Anxious Lest He Should Not Get The Truth; He Is Not Anxious Lest Poverty Should Come Upon Him.

It Is Man That Makes Truth Great, And Not Truth That Makes Man Great.

The Chase Of Gain Is Rich In Hate

He Who Is Harmony With Nature Hits The Mark Without Effort And Apprehends The Truth Without Thinking.

But If You Do Not Have The Tao Yourself, What Business Have You Spending Your Time In Vain Efforts To Bring Corrupt Politicians Into The Right Path?

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