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The Analects

221 BC · 110 pages

Confucius answers his students in short exchanges: never do to others what you would not want done to yourself, and let ritual shape everything. Chinese officials memorized it to hold office until 1905.

★ 6.7

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When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao.

221 BC

★ 4.7

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Moral force never dwells in solitude; it will always bring neighbors.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 4.1

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I for my part am not one of those who have innate knowledge. I am simply one who loves the past and who is diligent in investigating it.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 4.0

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Is Goodness indeed so far away? If we really wanted Goodness, we should find that it was at our very side.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 4.0

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If you desire what is good, the people will be good. The character of a ruler is like wind and that of the people is like grass. In whatever direction the wind blows the grass always bends.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 4.0

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At fifteen my mind was set on learning. At thirty my character had been formed. At forty I had no more perplexities. At fifty I knew the Mandate of Heaven. At sixty I was at ease with whatever I heard. At seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing moral principles.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 4.0

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A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 3.3

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Have no friends who are not of equal (moral) caliber.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

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The superior man understands righteousness; the inferior man understands profit.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

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A young man's duty is to behave well to his parents at home and to his elders abroad.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

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Does Heaven say anything? The four seasons run their course and all things are produced. Does Heaven say anything?

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

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In the presence of a good man, think all the time how you may learn to equal him. In the presence of a bad man, turn your gaze within.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

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If we are not yet able to serve man, how can we serve spiritual beings?... If we do not yet know about life how can we know about death?

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

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He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

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What is over and done with, one does not discuss. What has already taken its course, one does not criticize; what already belongs to the past, one does not censure.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.3

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The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one.

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★ 2.2

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Those who are contented and at ease when the occasion comes and live in accord with the course of Nature cannot be affected by sorrow or joy. This is what the ancients called release from bondage. Those who cannot release themselves are so because they are bound by material things.

221 BC

★ 2.0

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He who is influenced neither by the soaking in of slander nor by the assault of denunciation may indeed be called illumined.

Analects · 221 BC

★ 1.5