"When a man comes to me, I..." - Quote by Confucius
When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.
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“Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.”
“The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.”
“You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?”
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“When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things”
“Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.”
“The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.”