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

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

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?

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

To entire sincerity there belongs ceaselessness.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential. These are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference.

To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.

When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.