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Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?ConfuciusAnalects, I.1verified
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.ConfuciusAnalects, II.15verified
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.ConfuciusAnalects, II.17verified
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.ConfuciusAnalects, II.24verified
When the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves.ConfuciusAnalects, IX.27verified
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.ConfuciusAnalects, VII.15verified
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.ConfuciusAnalects, XIV.36verified
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.ConfuciusAnalects, XV.23verified
Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans.ConfuciusAnalects, XV.26verified
To have faults and not to reform them — this, indeed, should be pronounced having faults.ConfuciusAnalects, XV.29
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