12 ideas
7357 | People who control others with fluent language often end up being hated [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
7358 | All men prefer outward appearance to true excellence [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7362 | Humans are similar, but social conventions drive us apart (sages and idiots being the exceptions) [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7360 | Do not do to others what you would not desire yourself [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7359 | Excess and deficiency are equally at fault [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7363 | The virtues of the best people are humility, maganimity, sincerity, diligence, and graciousness [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7361 | Men of the highest calibre avoid political life completely [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23829 | National leaders want to preserve necessary order - but always the existing order [Weil] |
23393 | Confucianism assumes that all good developments have happened, and there is only one Way [Norden on Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
23827 | Modern wars are fought in the name of empty words which are given capital letters [Weil] |