Confucius said, “Yan Hui is of no help to me. He is pleased with everything I say.”

— Analects 11.4

“Rivers know this… we shall get there some day.”

— Winnie the Pooh

Confucius said, “If a man of position does not have integrity, he will not inspire genuine awe. And when he has made a mistake, he should not be afraid to correct it.”

— Analects 1.8

Yan Hui asked about #humaneness. Confucius said, “Restrain your ego in favor of #decency. Simple as that. Practice this for one day, and you’ll be capable of humaneness for the world. It rests with you. How could it come from others?”

— Analects 12.1

You’ve earned the pride of knowing you’ve chosen and acted well, when so many with fewer obstacles have not. Thank you for all you’ve done, for hope’s sake.

Exquisite! And inspiring, truly.

Confucius, admiring music with the Grand Musician of Lu, said, “It engages from the start. Once in full measure it is pure and harmonious, notes bright and distinct, passages transcendent and continuous, through the conclusion.”

— Analects 3.23

Confucius said, “Promote the upright and assert them above the crooked. The people will be in moral awe and will work with you.”

— Analects 2.29.1

Confucius said, “People are similar in nature; they become distinct through practice.”

— Analects 17.2

Confucius said, “The Good Person harmonizes without echoing. The #Xiǎorén echoes without harmony.”

— Analects 13.23

Confucius said, “The Good Person is unconcerned with gorging or hoarding. He’s anxious about what he does and careful about what he says. He gravitates toward those with integrity, because he wants to put himself right. One could say he loves learning.”

— Analects 1.14

Someone asked, “What do you think of the expression, ‘Repay a wrong with kindness?’”

Confucius said, “How, then, would you repay kindness? Repay a wrong with uprightness. Repay kindness with kindness.”

— Analects 14.34

“How can you call a man an eternal soul and grind him in the dirt? How can you worship the rich man that sees poor folks and refuses them?

How can you talk of freedom and jail the man that talks it? A working man’s hand is the hardest card in the whole damn deck to play.”

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