If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?
ConfuciusIf your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
ConfuciusTo know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
ConfuciusIn the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
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