The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Confucius
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  1. Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. - E.e. Cummings

  2. Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. - William Shakespeare

  3. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind - Neil Armstrong

  4. In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars. - Amit Kalantri

  5. When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been... - Bertrand Russell

More Quotes By Confucius
  1. 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.

  2. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  3. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

  4. Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

  5. If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

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