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Look at a man's acts; watch his motives; find out what pleases him: can the man evade you? Can the man evade you? - Confucius, Analects, 400 b.c.
Do not be desirous to have things done quickly; do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents them from being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great efforts from being accomplished. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
In what way should a person in authority act in order to conduct affairs properly? When the person in authority is benevolent without great expenditure; when he lays tasks unto people without their complaining; when he pursues what he desires without being covetous; when he maintains a dignified ease without being proud; when he is imposing without being fierce. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Whether we accede to benevolence depends solely on ourselves and not on others. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
To love benevolence without loving learning is bound to lead to foolishness. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A man of worth can always talk, but talkers are not always men of worth. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
If the tongue have no fear, words are hard to make good. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
A brave man appears rash compared with a coward, and cowardly compared with a rash man. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
The man who faces danger gladly, or at least without distress, is brave; the one who feels distress is a coward. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
In the field of Fear and Confidence the mean is courage; and of those who go to extremes the man who exceeds in fearlessness has no name to describe him (there are many nameless cases), the one who exceeds in confidence is called Rash, and the one who shows an excess of fear and deficiency of confidence is called cowardly. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
He that is really Wise can never be perplexed.
He that is really Benevolent can never be unhappy.
He that is really Courageous can never be afraid.
- Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
The man of courage pursues his objectives fearlessly. The man of courage is never afraid. Faced with what is right and to have it undone, indicates a lack of courage. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Neither great goodness nor great wickedness can be achieved by a man devoid of courage. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Right comes first for a gentleman. Courage, without a sense of right, makes rebels of the great, and robber of the poor. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. - Confucius.
The only ones who do not change are sages and idiots. - Confucius, c.400 BC.
Men of old had three failings, which have, perhaps, died out today. Ambitious men of old were not nice: Ambitious men today are unprincipled. Masterful men of old were rough: masterful men today are quarrelsome. Simple men of old were straight: simple men today are false. That is all. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
To love virtue and not learning: a simpleton.
To love Knowing and not learning: shallowness.
To love Honesty and not learning: naivete.
To love plain speech and not learning: rudeness.
To love physical strength and not learning: rebelliousness.
To love determination and not learning: recklessness.
- Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
In conducting business, the superior man is anxious that he should be reverently attentive; in retirement, to be sedately grave; in intercourse with others, to be strictly sincere; when angry, to think of the difficulties anger may bring him; when acquiring a gain, to think of righteousness. Though a man go among rude, uncultivated tribes, these qualities may not be neglected. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A gentleman knows neither sorrow nor fear. He finds no sin in his heart, so why should he sorrow, what should he fear? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Of a gentleman who is frivolous none stand in awe, nor can his learning be sound. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A gentleman has no rivalries ? except perhaps in archery; and then, as bowing he joins the winners, or steps down to see the loser drink, throughout the struggle he is still the gentleman. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Rotten wood cannot be carved, nor are dung walls plastered. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Read to become a gentleman; do not read as the vulgar do. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Nature outweighing art begets roughness; art outweighing nature begets pedantry. Art and nature well blent make a gentleman. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Neglect of what is good in me; want of thoroughness in study; failure to do the right when told me; lack of strength to overcome faults, these are my sorrows. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
To be unmoved by lap and wash of slander, or by plaints that pierce to the quick, may be called insight. Yea, whom lap and wash of slander, or plaints that pierce to the quick cannot move may be called far-sighted. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters, and follow the right; the mind will be raised. We wish life to things we love, death to things we hate. To wish them both life and death is a delusion. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended? One angry morning to forget both self and kin, is that no error? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Never be in a hurry: shut thine eyes to small gains. Nought done in a hurry is thorough, and an eye for small gain means big things undone. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
As followers of the golden mean are not to be found, I have to work with ambitious and headstrong men. Ambitious men push ahead, and there are things that headstrong men will not do. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Strength and courage, simplicity and meekness are akin to love. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
But today who asks the like of a full-grown man? Who in sight of gain remembers right, in face of danger will risk his life, and cleaves to his word for a lifetime, however old the bond, him we must call a full-grown man. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Unruly when young, unmentioned as a man, undying when old, spells good-for-nothing! - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Honeyed words confound goodness: impatience of trifles confounds great projects. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A gentleman has no skill in trifles, but has strength for big task: the vulgar are skilled in trifles, but have no strength for big tasks. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A gentleman has nine aims. To see clearly; to understand what he hears; to be warm in manner, dignified in bearing, faithful of speech, painstaking at work; to ask when in doubt; in anger to think of difficulties; in sight of gain to remember right. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A fierce outside and a weak core, is it not like a paltry fellow, like a thief who crawls through a hole in the wall? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A man who is blind to doom can be no gentleman. Without knowledge of courtesy we must want foothold. Without a knowledge of words there is no understanding men. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
The bane of all things noble is the pattern citizen. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Without a sense of courtesy, attentions grow into fussiness, heed turns to fearfulness, courage becomes unruliness, uprightness turns to harshness. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Love is to conquer self and turn to courtesy. Could we conquer self and turn to courtesy for but one day, all mankind would turn to love. Does love flow from within, or does it flow from others?.... Without the door to behave as though a great guest were come; to treat the people as though we tendered the high sacrifice; no to do unto others what we would no they should do unto us; to breed no wrongs in the state and breed no wrongs at home. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A man who is blind to doom can be no gentleman. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Love of daring, inflamed by poverty, leads to crime: a man without love, if deeply ill-treated, will turn to crime. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
When a bird is to die, his note is sad; when a man is to die, his words are true. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
But when nothing poses as something, cloud as substance, want as riches, steadfastness must be rare. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Consider your job of prime importance; put the reward in second place - wouldn't this be excellence in its exalted form. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
There are three duties that a gentleman prizes: to banish from his bearing violence and levity; to sort his face to the truth; to purge his speech of the low and unfair. As for temple matters there are officers to mind them. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
If one learns but does not think, one will be bewildered. If one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be imperiled. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Study as if you were never to master it; as if in fear of losing it. - Confucius. Analects, c.400 b.c.
In learning and straightway practicing is there not pleasure also? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A gentleman who is not a greedy eater, nor a lover of ease at home, who is earnest in deed and careful of speech, who seeks the righteous and profits by them, may be called fond of learning. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Study without thought is vain: thought without study is dangerous. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
At fifteen I was bent on study; at thirty, I could stand; at forty, doubts ceased; at fifty, I understood the laws of Heaven; at sixty, my ears obeyed me; at seventy, I could do as my heart lusted, and never swerve from right. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Read to become a gentleman; do not read as the vulgar do. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
By breadth of reading and the ties of courtesy a gentleman will also keep from error?s path. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
From the man who paid in dried meat upwards, I have withheld teaching from no one. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A silent communer, an ever hungry learner, a still unflagging teacher; am I any of these? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy the name. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A man who is earnest, encouraging, and kind may be called educated. Earnest with friends and encouraging; kind towards his brothers. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
All educated men are peers. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
In vain have I spent in thought whole days without food, whole nights without sleep! Study is better. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
The best men are born wise. Next come those who grow wise by learning: then, learned, narrow minds. Narrow minds, without learning, are the lowest of the people. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Sit down that I may tell thee. The thirst for love, without love of learning, sinks into fondness. Love of knowledge, without love of learning, sinks into presumption. Love of truth, without love of learning, sinks into cruelty. Love of uprightness, without love of learning, sinks into harshness. Love of courage, without love of learning, sinks into turbulence. Love of strength, without love of learning, sinks into oddity. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Who recalls each day what fails him, who each month forgets nothing won, he may indeed be called fond of learning. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
To learn their trade apprentices work in a shop: by study a gentleman reaches the truth. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
To rank the effort above the prize may be caled love. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 BC.
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. Discover what other people do or do not want done to them. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
The way to do is to be. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
All men are alike in their nature, but become different through practice. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
If you have faults, do not fear self-improvement. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Honeyed words and flattering looks seldom speak of love. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 BC.
There are three friends that do good, and three friends that do harm. The friends that do good are a straight friend, a sincere friend, and a friend who has heard much. the friends that do harm are a smooth friend, a fawning friend, and a friend with a glib tongue. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
Whom lack of fame cannot vex, is he not a gentleman? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Could Good men govern for an hundred years, Cruelty would be vanquished, putting to death an end. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
In governing, cleave to good; as the north star holds his place, and the multitude of stars revolve upon him. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
If we keep within the bounds of honor, we may step to and fro through propriety. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
The wise man is never of two minds. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
Out of of knowledge to learn from ignorance, out of wealth to learn from penury; having to seem wanting, real to seem shadow; when gainsaid never answering back: I had once a friend who would act thus. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
When the mind was disciplined and expanded by study, the remarkable harmonies of nature would become plain. One has to fill oneself with knowledge like a vessel. Upon the knowledge gained, the indwelling truth would act like a yeast, forcing the mind to assume its original perfect shape. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
The whole end of speech is to be understood. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Without a knowledge of words there is no understanding men. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
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 with courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
The relationship between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows over it. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
The gentleman can influence those above him; the small man can only influence those below him. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Moral examples are more effective than edicts. If the leader is good, the followers will be good and follow the example. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
To guide a land of a thousand chariots, honour business, be true and sparing, love the people, and time thy claims upon them. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Sir, what need has a ruler to kill? Were ye set on good, sir, your people would do good. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A gentleman is easy to serve, and hard to please. Nought but what is right pleases him: he fits his behests to the man. The vulgar are hard to serve, and easy to please. What is wrong may yet please them: but of their men they expect all things. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
He who would govern men must honor the five graces, spurn the four vices.... A gentleman is kind, but not wasteful; he burdens, but does not embitter; he is covetous, not sordid; high-minded, not proud; he inspires awe, and not fear.... To leave untaught and then to kill is cruelty: to ask full tale [tax] without warning is tyranny: to give careless orders, and be strict when the day comes is robbery: to be stingy in rewarding men is littleness. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
A man without love, what is courtesy to him? A man without love, what is music to him? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
In seeking a foothold for self, love finds a foothold for others; seeking light for itself, it enlightens others also. To learn from the near at hand may be called the key to love. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
When love is at stake, yield not to an army. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Love is more to the people than fire and water. I have known men come to their death by fire and water: I have met no man whom love brought unto death. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Love is to mete out five things to all below heaven.... Modesty and bounty, truth, earnestness and kindness. Modesty escapes insult; bounty wins the many; truth gains men's trust; earnestness brings success; kindness is the key to men's work. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
The flowers overhead
Are dancing in play;
My thoughts are with thee,
In thy home far away.
- Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Man is born upright. If he ceases to be so and live, he is lucky to escape. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
To men above the common we may speak of things above the common. To men below the common we must not speak of things above the common. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 b.c.
What is kingcraft? Food enough, troops enough, and a trusting people. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 BC.
Men who wait upon princes fall into three mistakes. To speak before the time has come is rashness. Not to speak before the time has come is secrecy. To speak heedless of looks is blindness. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 BC.
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
The cold days show how fir and cypress are last to fade. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
Nature outweighing art begets roughness; art outweighing nature begets pedantry. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
Some sprouts do not blossom, some blossoms bear no fruit. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
Nature is not more than art; it is no more than nature. Without the fur, a tiger or a leopard?s hide is as the hide of a dog, or goat. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
I cannot rank with an old gardener. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
Does Heaven speak? The seasons four revolve, and all things multiply. Does Heaven speak? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
Exalt the straight, set aside the crooked, the people will be loyal. Exalt the crooked, set aside the straight, the people will be disloyal. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
The people may be made to follow: they cannot be made to understand. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
A steed is not praised for his strength, but praised for his mettle. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
Without thought for far off things, there will be troubles near at hand. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
If a man does not give thought to problems which are still distant he will be worried by them when they come nearer. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
When not in office, discuss not policy. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
To see the right and not do it is want of courage. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
At sight of worth, think to grow like it. When evil meets thee, search thine own heart. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
Exalt the straight, put aside the crooked; the crooked will grow straight. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
When right prevails, be fearless of speech and fearless in deed: when wrong prevails, be fearless in deed but soft of speech. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
The wise are free from doubt; ove is never vexed; the bold have no fears. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 BC.
Men of old were loth to speak; lest a word that they could not make good should shame them. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
Who contains himself goes seldom wrong. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
What is governing to him who can rule himself? Who cannot rule himself, how should he rule others? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
By asking much of self, and throwing little on others, ill feeling is put to flight. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
What is the good of a glib tongue? Fighting men with tongue-craft breeds much bitterness. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
To take untaught men into battle is to cast them away. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
Without knowing the FORCE of words, it is impossible to know men. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
To pierce through the target does not score in archery; because men differ in strength. This was the old rule. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 BC.
Without truth I know not how man can live. A cart without a crosspole, a carriage without a harness, how could they be moved? - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
Commend a man for plain speaking: he may prove a gentleman, or else but seeming honest. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
The man can exalt the truth: truth cannot exalt the man. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 B.C.
Wisdom, benevolence and courage: these are the three universal virtues. Some practice them with the ease of nature; some for the sake of their own advantage; and some by dint of great effort. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Possessing virtue will give the ruler the people. Possessing the people will give him territory. Possessing the territory will give him its wealth, he will have the resources for expenditure. Virtue is the route, wealth is the result. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Living on coarse rice and water, with bent arm for pillow, mirth may be ours; but ill-gotten wealth and honours are to me a wandering cloud. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
Three armies may be robbed of their leader, no wretch can be robbed of his will. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom enjoys life; love grows old. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
To foster right amongst the people; to honour the ghosts of the dead, whilst keeping aloof from them, may be called wisdom. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 BC.
Only girls and servants are hard to train. Draw near to them, they grow unruly; hold them off, they pay you with spite. - Confucius, Analects, c. 400 BC.
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. - Confucius, Analects, c.400 b.c.
My fave ... "Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it." &;-)
Spoken like a clerk who never faced a field of battle.
hehehehe ;-)
Ronald Reagan thought differently, and made a rather successful career of patiently explaining things to the people.
"A bird in hand makes hard to blow nose."
"Man who jump off cliff jump to conclusion!"
"Work to become, not to acquire."
"Man with one chopstick go hungry"
Tex ... I opted to skip THAT one! LOL &;-)
That's my favorite. Goes right to the core of what is wrong with most of the world. And most Politicians....
Remember, Confucius was not speaking strictly of direct physical danger on or off the battlefield. There are dangers that people face everyday that have nothing to do with death. In many cases, simply doing what is right is more danger than the average person is willing to face.
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