"Virtue is not left to stand alone...." - Quote by Confucius
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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“I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.”
“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.”
“Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself.”
More on Virtue
“Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.”
“My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.”
“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”
More on Influence
“I think who you are in school really sticks with you.”
“If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.”
“The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.”