"The virtuous will be sure to speak..." - Quote by Confucius
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
“If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.”
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
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“...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.”
“The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.”
“A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.”
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“Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?”
“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.”
“Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.”