Confucius quotes
551–479 BCE · Zou, Lu
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- The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, translated by James Legge, 1861 · Analects 1.8.4, p. 5
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To have faults and not to reform them,—this, indeed, should be pronounced having faults.
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- The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, translated by James Legge, 1861 · Analects 15.29, p. 166
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- The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, translated by James Legge, 1861 · Analects 15.23, p. 165
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The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
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- The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, translated by James Legge, 1861 · Analects 4.24, p. 86
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- The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, translated by James Legge, 1861 · Analects 4.16, p. 84
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- The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects, translated by James Legge, 1861 · Analects 2.24.2, p. 18
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