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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Rotten wood cannot be carved. -- Confucius, "Analects", Book 5, Ch. 9 | |
| A selection from the Taoist Writings: "Lao-Tan asked Confucius: `What do you mean by benevolence and righteousness?' Confucius said: `To be in one's inmost heart in kindly sympathy with all things; to love all men and allow no selfish thoughts: this is the nature of benevolence and righteousness.'" -- Kwang-tzu | |
| To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it. -- Confucius | |
| Confucius say too much. -- Recent Chinese Proverb | |
| Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. -- Confucius | |
| By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. -- Confucius | |
| Have no friends not equal to yourself. -- Confucius | |
| Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius | |
| The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases: "Let our thoughts be correct". -- Confucius | |
| The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. -- Confucius | |
