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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Chinese philosopher & reformer [more author details]

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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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The cautious seldom err.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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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 does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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 great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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 will lose again.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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, The Confucian Analects
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.: Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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