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All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

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If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

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There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

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Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform.

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If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

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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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There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

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It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

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

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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

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You cannot open a book without learning something.

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Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

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A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

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If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

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Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

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The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

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Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

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The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

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