If there were an honorable way to get rich, Iโd do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isnโt an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
ConfuciusThe Master said of Gong Yechang, โHe is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.โ The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)
ConfuciusIt 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.
ConfuciusThere are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
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