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May Quotes by Confucius
- There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.
- A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
- The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
- Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .
- Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are…
- Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
- When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he…
- 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…
- The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with…
- Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife
- If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
- The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who…
- The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he…
- The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led…
- 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…
- The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
- A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes has…
- The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.
- The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse…
- Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them…
- The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from…
- Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.
- The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a…
- Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
- Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong