Confucius
Ancient China
-551 // -479
Philosopher / Moralist
-551 // -479
Philosopher / Moralist
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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