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Confucius Quotes

"When anger rises, think of the consequences.""Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.""Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven.""When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.""What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.""Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.""The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.""The journey with a thousand miles begins with one step.""The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.""When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.""Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.""Study the past, if you would divine the future.""To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.""They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.""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.""Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?""The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.""If we don't know life, how can we know death?""Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.""Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous."