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There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.

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Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

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No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

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Whatever heaven ordains is best.

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To know and not do, is to not yet know.

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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

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Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest.

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I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

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By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost.

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Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

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There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

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To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

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To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

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The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

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If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

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What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

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If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

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