0201l-CONFUCIUS (Chinese: 孔夫子; pinyin: Kǒng Fūzǐ; Wade-Giles: K'ung-fu-tzu), lit. "Master Kung", born 551 BC-479 BC in Qufu, China in the State of Lu (now part of Shandong Province) in the Spring and Autumn Period at the beginning of 100 Schools of Thought, was a Chinese thinker and social whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life, his philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity.
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Confucius was writer of Analects, The Doctrine of Mean, The Great Learning. Some philosophies; The object of the superior man is truth, The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue, The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions, Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself, The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort, Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated, Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous, The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence, It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them, It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get, To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short, To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice, The cautious seldom err, Study the past, if you would divine the future, Heaven means to be one with God. According to Chinese tradition, was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought. Modern historians do not believe that any specific documents can be said to have been written by Confucius, but for nearly 2,000 years he was thought to be the editor or author of all the Five Classics such as the Classic of Rites (editor), and the Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋) (author). Is reported to have worked as a shepherd, cowherd, clerk and book-keeper, position of Justice Minister in Lu, he took a long journey or set of journeys around the small kingdoms of northeast and central China, including the states of Wei (魏), Song (宋), Chen (陳) and Cai (蔡), one of the deepest teachings of Confucius may have been the superiority of personal exemplification over explicit rules of behavior,