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- The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- 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?
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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