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Famous Confucius Quotes
“When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.”
“If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”
“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
“Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.”
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
“Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”
“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
“To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.”
“I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”