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Confucius quotes, quotations, sayings

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
Confucius
 1008    
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
Confucius
 1006    
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
 1004    
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
 1004    
Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
Confucius
 1004    
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius
 1004    
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Confucius
 1004    
To be with God.
Confucius
 1004    
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
Confucius, "Analects", Book 5, Ch. 9
 1004    
What is the sound of one hand clapping
Confucius
 1004    
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
Confucius
 1004    
The object of the superior man is truth.
Confucius
 1004    
To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
Confucius
 1004    
To love a thing means wanting it to live.
Confucius
 1004    
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Confucius
 1004    
I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.
Confucius
 1004    
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Confucius
 1004    
If we don't know life, how can we know death
Confucius
 1004    
The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
Confucius
 1004    
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
 1004    
I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
Confucius
 1004    
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Confucius
 1004    
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Confucius
 1004    
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius, Analects, XV.24
 1004    
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
 1004    
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
 1004    
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius
 1004    
At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
Theodore Roosevelt
 1004    
The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Confucius
 1004    
Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
Confucius
 1004    
The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
Confucius
 1004    
What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
Confucius
 1004    
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Confucius
 1004    
The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
Confucius
 1004    
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
 1004    
A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.
Confucius
 1004    
They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
Confucius
 1004    
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Confucius
 1004    
I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.
Confucius
 1004    
Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.
Confucius
 1004    
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
 1004    
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
 1004    
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
 1004    
Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
Confucius
 1004    
If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
Confucius
 1004    
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Confucius
 1004    
A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
Confucius
 1004    
I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
Confucius
 1004    
What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand.
Confucius, 451 BC
 1004    
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius
 1004    


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