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Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.
The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.
See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.
When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.
The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.
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.
The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.
If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.
A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.
The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
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.
A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.