It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great. - Confucius

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It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

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About Confucius

Confucius (traditionally 28 September 551 B.C. – 479 B.C.) was a Chinese social philosopher, whose teachings deeply influenced East Asian life and thought. "Confucius" is a latinization of the Chinese 孔夫子, Kong Fu Zi or K'ung-fu-tzu, literally "Master Kong", but he is usually referred to in China with a simpler version of this honorific as 孔子, Kongzi, or Kǒng Zǐ.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Anonymous Chinese painter of the Western Han period (Public domain / CC0)

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Native Name: 孔夫子
Alternative Names: Confucio Konfuzius Cheu-kong Chung-ni Cong-tse K'ung Chung-ni K'ung Fu-tse K'ung-fu-tzu K'ung-tzu Kong Fu Zi Kong Fuzi Kong Qiu Kong Zhongni Kongfuzi Kongqiu Kongzi Kung Chung-ni Kung Fu Tzu Kung Fu-tse Kungfutse Zhongni

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Original (Chinese)
子曰:「人能弘道,非道弘人。」
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The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

《 詩 》云:「瞻彼淇澳,菉竹猗猗。有斐君子,如切如磋,如琢如磨。瑟兮僩兮,赫兮喧兮。有斐君子,終不可諠兮!」「 如切如磋 」者,道學也;「如琢如磨」者,自修也;「瑟兮僩兮」者,恂慄也;「赫兮喧兮」者,威儀也;「有斐君子,終不可諠兮」者,道盛德至善,民之不能忘也。《 詩 》云:「於戲前王不忘!」君子賢其賢而親其親,小人樂其樂而利其利,此以沒世不忘也。

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子曰:「我未見好仁者,惡不仁者。好仁者,無以尚之;惡不仁者,其為仁矣,不使不仁者加乎其身。有能一日用其力於仁矣乎?我未見力不足者。蓋有之矣,我未之見也。」

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