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Things Quotes by Confucius
- With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of…
- Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be…
- Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you…
- Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.
- When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then…
- Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior…
- How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height…
- There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ...…
- All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any…
- 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…
- I never really said all those things I said
- Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
- To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense…
- Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.
- It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult…
- To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
- The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
- No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you…
- Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu…
- Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle