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Confucius Quotes about Virtue

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To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

Able, Faults, Virtue

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

Responsibility, Men, Virtue

"The Analects". Book by Confucius,

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

Yoga, Simple, Virtue

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

Attitude, Language, Virtue

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Dignity, Confucianism, Virtue

Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.18, Open Road Media

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

Ruins, Virtue, Profession

Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Clever, Justice, Virtue

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

People, Excellence, Virtue

Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.356, Courier Corporation

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

Vices, Virtue, Should

Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

Love, Love Is, Virtue

Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

Women, Men, Virtue

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

Doe, Virtue, Eloquence

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

Heaven, Human Nature, Virtue

Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

Virtue, My Own, If I Could

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

Men, Names, Virtue

Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”

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