We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy
supports.
Mao Tse~Tung (1893 ~ 1976)
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of
distress.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to
his actions.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
When a man^s knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not
sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose
again.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
There are three things which the superior man guards against.
In youth...lust.
When he is strong...quarrelsomeness.
When he is old...covetousness.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of
danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old
agreement however far back it extends ~ such a man may be reckoned a complete
man.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
God given knowledge reveals that man is incomplete. He must grow in the
grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ and must be born again.
Jacques
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and
success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC), Analects
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC)
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in
others.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC)
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC)
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC)
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius (551 BC ~ 479 BC)