Confucius
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.

At fifteen my heart was set on learning; at thirty I stood firm; at forty I had no more doubts; at fifty I knew the mandate of heaven; at sixty my ear was obedient; at seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing the norm.

The cautious seldom err.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Perfect is the virtue which is according to the Mean! Rare have they long been among the people, who could practice it!

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.