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Confucius The Confucian Analects
"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
Confucius The Confucian Analects
"Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."
Confucius The Confucian Analects
"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 The Confucian Analects
"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it."
Confucius The Confucian Analects
"He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed."
Confucius The Confucian Analects
"The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
Confucius The Confucian Analects
"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. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud."
"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
"I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath."
Aesop The Goose with the Golden Eggs
"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing."
Aesop The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
"Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse."
"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them."
"Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards."