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Confucius ( Kǒng Zǐ) is a 2010 Chinese biographical drama film written and directed by Hu Mei, starring Chow Yun-fat as the titular Chinese philosopher. The film was produced by P.H. Yu, Han Sanping, Rachel Liu and John Shum. Production on the film began in March 2009 with shooting on location in China's Hebei province and in Hengdian World Studios in Zhejiang. The film was scheduled to screen later in 2009 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, as well as the 2,560th birthday of Confucius himself. However, the release date was later moved to January 2010. Funimation released an English dub version on home video in 2012. Plot The film begins with Confucius as an old man, thinking back. Then we see him in his early 50s, being promoted from Mayor to Minister for Law in his home state of Lu. He is confronted with ethical issues after saving a slave-boy who was due to be buried alive with his former master who has just died. There are a lot of complex politics and war, ending with Confucius being rejected and becoming a wandering scholar. After many hardships and losses, he is invited back as an old man. We see him finally preparing the Spring and Autumn Annals, expecting that this book will determine his future influence.

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“He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labour and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time, and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labour and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.”
— The Morals of Confucius, 2nd edition (London, 1724), Maxim X, p. 114
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
— Attributed to Confucius in Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996) by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, p. 93
“To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.”
— § 6.20
“By extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, one may thus likewise not err from what is right.”
— XV
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
— Attributed in Mohammed Sirajul Islam (1967), Everyman's General Knowledge
“A hundred girls aren't worth a single testicle.”
— Attributed on the internet; a popular Vietnamese saying

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Notable quotes

“He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labour and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time, and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labour and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.”
— The Morals of Confucius, 2nd edition (London, 1724), Maxim X, p. 114
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
— Attributed to Confucius in Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996) by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, p. 93
“To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.”
— § 6.20
“By extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, one may thus likewise not err from what is right.”
— XV
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
— Attributed in Mohammed Sirajul Islam (1967), Everyman's General Knowledge
“A hundred girls aren't worth a single testicle.”
— Attributed on the internet; a popular Vietnamese saying

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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