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The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

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