CONFUCIUS SAID

 

CONFUCIUS   SAID

Confucius, a great Chinese politician and philosopher (551 -  479 B.C.) said:

 

1.Learn the past and you will know the future.

2.Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

3. A blemish may be taken out of a diamond by carefully polishing it, but, if your words have the least blemish, there is no way to efface it.

4. In a well-governed country, poverty is something to be ashamed of.

5. Everything has beauty but everyone does not try to see it.

6. Don’t do to others which you do not want to be done to you.

7. Be benevolent.

8. Practice family rituals religiously .

9. Be honest both to ourself and others.

10. Be a life-long learner.

11. If you are building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, you have failed in your work. But if you have placed but one basketful on the plain, and go on, you are on the way building a mountain.

12.He who offends against heaven has none to whom he can pray.

13. To acknowledge one’s incapacity is the way to be soon prepared to teach others; for from the  moment a man is no longer full of himself, not puffed up with empty pride, whatever good he learns in the morning he practices before night.

14. Humanity means the love of masses.

15. Serve your superiors both loyally and diligently.

                These are just a handful of his eternal ideas.  He has many more.  Study some exhaustive biographical book on him.

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27^th June 2022                                                                                   G.R.KANWAL