Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
ConfuciusIt was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.
ConfuciusThe Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.
ConfuciusKnowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
ConfuciusThe Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.
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