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1. Cultivate oneself, manage one's family, govern the country, and bring peace to the world (university)

2. If you hesitate, everything will be established; if you don't, it will be destroyed. (Golden Mean)

3. If you love something, you will know its evil; if you hate it, you will know its goodness. (Book of Rites)

4. Jade cannot be used without polishing, and people cannot understand it without learning. (Book of Rites)

5. Learn, and then you will know your shortcomings; teach, and then you will know your shortcomings. (Book of Rites)

6. Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger. (Book of Rites)

7. Birds of a feather flock together, and people divide into groups. (Book of Changes)

8. If you are full, you will suffer losses, but if you are modest, you will benefit. (Shang Shu)

9. For the sake of nine people, the success will fall short. (Shu Jing)

10. Good medicine is bitter in the mouth and good for the disease; loyal words are hard on the ears and good for the action. (Family Classics)

11. On the journey of the great road, the world is for the common good. (Book of Rites)

12. Knowing shame is almost courageous. (Book of Rites)

13. The way of civil and military affairs is to relax one by one. (Book of Rites)

14. Difficulty leads to change, change leads to generalization, and generalization leads to long-term development. (Book of Changes)

15. The people are the foundation of a country, and the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful. (Shu Jing)

16. Reciprocity is a courtesy, but it is disrespectful to not reciprocate. (Book of Rites)

17. A leaf obscures the eyes, and Mount Tai cannot be seen. Plug your ears with beans and don't hear the thunder. (Guanzi)

18. It is universally applicable. (Book of Rites)

19. The emperor cannot live forever. (Book of Rites)

20. A single spark can start a prairie fire. (Shu Jing)

21. Pay lip service but fail to deliver, and blame the disaster and its people. (Book of Rites)

22. Smart and eager to learn, not ashamed to ask questions. (The Analects of Confucius)

23. If you review the past and learn the new, you can become a teacher. (The Analects of Confucius)

24. Learning without thinking is a waste, thinking without learning is a disaster. (The Analects of Confucius)

25. What a joy it is to learn and practice it from time to time! (The Analects of Confucius)

26. A gentleman makes friends with literature, and helps benevolence with friends. (The Analects of Confucius)

27. A gentleman is magnanimous, but a villain is always worried. (The Analects of Confucius)

28. When you work hard, you forget to eat; when you are happy, you forget your excellence; you don’t know that old age is coming. (The Analects of Confucius)

29. Repay grievance with straightness and repay kindness with kindness. (Confucius)

30. A gentleman seeks for himself, while a villain seeks for others. (Confucius)

31. Clever words confuse morality, and small impatience confuses big plans. (Confucius)

32. People with different paths should not conspire with each other. (Confucius)

33. Ji Sun's worries are not in a moment, but within the Xiaoqiang. (Confucius)

34. Don’t worry about poverty but inequality; don’t worry about scarcity but insecurity. (Confucius)

35. No one is poor, no one is in harmony, no one is widowed, no one is in danger. (Confucius)

36. Be tireless in learning and teaching. (Confucius)

37. To be rich and noble through unrighteousness is like floating clouds to me. (Confucius)

38. The people can follow it, but they cannot know it. (Confucius)

39. If you are not in your position, you will not seek to govern. (Confucius)

40. Death has existed since ancient times, and people cannot stand without faith. (Confucius)

41. Those who love want to live, those who hate want to die. (Confucius)

42. Politicians are upright. The commander-in-chief is correct, who dares not to be correct? (Confucius)

43. If the name is not correct, the words will not be smooth, and if the words are not smooth, the things will not be accomplished. (Confucius)

44. If his body is upright, he will not do what he is told; if his body is not upright, he will not do what he is told. (Confucius)

45. One word can make a country prosper, one word can destroy it. (Confucius)

46. A gentleman is ashamed of his words and goes beyond his actions. (Confucius)

47. Don’t worry about others but you don’t know yourself, and you don’t know others when you are worried. (Confucius)

48. When you see the virtuous, think about others; when you see the virtuous, think inwardly. (Confucius)

49. Failure to do what is right is a lack of courage. (Confucius)

50. Scholars can be killed but not humiliated. (Confucius)

51. Listening to the Tao and speaking in vain is the abandonment of virtue (Confucius)

52. Be knowledgeable and determined, ask questions carefully and think deeply, and benevolence is in it. (Confucius)

53. Three friends are beneficial: friends who are straightforward, friends who are understanding, and friends who are knowledgeable. (Confucius)

54. Making mistakes without correcting them is a mistake. (Confucius)

55. A gentleman seeks the road but not food; he worries about the road but not poverty. (Confucius)

56. Do your duty without giving in to the teacher. (Confucius)

57. If everyone is evil, you will have to check it; if everyone is good, you will have to check it. (Confucius)

58. There are three kinds of happiness for those who suffer: happiness in arrogance, happiness in wandering, happiness in feasting, and loss. (Confucius)

59. A gentleman has three fears: fear of destiny, fear of great people, and fear of the words of sages. (Confucius)

60. How pleasant it is to have friends coming from afar! (Confucius)

61. People who have no long-term worries must have immediate worries. (Confucius)

62. A gentleman is likened to righteousness, and a villain is likened to benefit. (Confucius)

63. At thirty, one stands tall; at forty, one is not confused; at fifty, one knows the destiny; at sixty, one’s ears are attuned; at seventy, one follows one’s heart’s desires without exceeding the rules. (Confucius)

64. He who knows the current affairs is a hero.

(Confucius)

65. Living with good people is like entering a house of orchids and not smelling the fragrance for a long time, then you will be transformed into it; living with bad people is like entering a house of abalones and not smelling it for a long time. Its odor is also transformed into it. (Confucius)

66. When the year is cold, you will know that the pines and cypresses will wither. (Confucius)

67. A gentleman who is knowledgeable and considers himself day by day will be wise and act without fault. (Xunzi)

68. When three people are walking together, there must be one who is my teacher. (Confucius)

69. Words must be deeded, deeds must bear fruit, and fruit must be believed. (Confucius)

70. Be sensitive to things but cautious in speaking. (Confucius)

71. Don’t use words to lift people up, and don’t use people to waste words. (The Analects of Confucius)

72. The deceased is like a man who never gives up day and night. (Confucius)

73. A man with lofty ideals and benevolence does not seek life to harm his benevolence, but kills himself to achieve benevolence. (The Analects of Confucius)

74. Once it comes, make peace with it.

(The Analects of Confucius)