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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

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A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

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It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

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When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

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The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

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Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

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Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

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The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)

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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.

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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

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To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

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Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

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Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

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Learning without thought is labour lost.

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