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- Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Study the past if you would define the future.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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