Confucius Quotes About Love
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Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
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When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
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The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
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When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.
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He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure.
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The funniest people are the saddest once
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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death
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I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.
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Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
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The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
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He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.
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He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
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Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.
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If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
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He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
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Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
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To love a thing means wanting it to live.
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
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When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
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It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
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Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
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