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Confucius

Read through the most famous quotes from Confucius




We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.


— Confucius


#feel #oppression #should #sink #sorrow

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.


— Confucius


#everyone #faults #like #looks #moon

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.


— Confucius


#right #see

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.


— Confucius


#better #contract #man #never #than

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.


— Confucius


#action #acts #afterwards #before #his

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.


— Confucius


#easiest #experience #first #gaining #highest

If we don't know life, how can we know death?


— Confucius


#how #know #life

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.


— Confucius


#diligence #expectations #first #his #life

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.


— Confucius


#hold #know #knowledge #thing #you

Heaven means to be one with God.


— Confucius


#heaven #means






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A good example is found in this famous anecdote:

廄焚。子退朝,曰:“傷人乎?” 不問馬。
When the stables were burnt down on returning from court Confucius said "Was anyone hurt?" He did not ask about the horses. Because of the huge interest in the Confucius family tree there was a project in China to test the DNA of known family members. Kung Te-cheng died in October 2008 and his son Kung Wei-yi the 78th lineal descendant had died in 1989.

Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism. He espoused the well-known principle "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself" an early version of the Golden Rule. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality correctness of social relationships justice and sincerity.

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