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Trying Quotes by Confucius
- If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
- 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…
- The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course…
- When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his…
- He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail
- When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
- Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
- When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
- If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even…
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