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When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

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She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.

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To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

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Sincerity is the way of heaven.

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In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

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A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

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I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

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An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

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Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

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If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

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The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

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If you want to change the world, first change your heart.

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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

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You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.

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When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart.

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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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At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

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