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Famous Confucius Quotes
“The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.”
“Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.”
“People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.”
“Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.”
“If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?”
“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”
“Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me”
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
“The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.”
“Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.”
“A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.”
“I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.”
“Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.”
“The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.”
“Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.”
“Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.”