Confucius: Doing (page 2)

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“Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. When making a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it.”

Confucius

Source: The Analects, Chapter I

“A young man should serve his parents at home and be respectful to elders outside his home. He should be earnest and truthful, loving all, but become intimate with humaneness. After doing this, if he has energy to spare, he can study literature and the arts.”

Confucius

Source: The Analects, Other chapters

Love , Truth , Art , Home

“When your father is alive, observe his will. When your father is dead observe his former actions. If, for three years [after the death of your father] you do not change from the ways of your father, you can be called a 'real son (xiào/hsiao).”

Confucius

The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV

Death , Way , Change , Dead

“Chi Wan thought thrice, and then acted. When the Master was informed of it, he said, "Twice may do."”

Confucius

Source: The Analects, Chapter V

“I know how it is that the path of the Mean is not walked in — The knowing go beyond it, and the stupid do not come up to it. I know how it is that the path of the Mean is not understood — The men of talents and virtue go beyond it, and the worthless do not come up to it.”

Confucius

Source: The Doctrine of the Mean

Men , Stupidity

“Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills”

Confucius

Reported in: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture (1973) Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress. p. 21
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Men , Mountain

“I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.”

Confucius

Source: The Analects, Chapter I