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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

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A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

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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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To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?

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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

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The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

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He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

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Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.

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The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

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Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.

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Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

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The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.

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In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

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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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To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

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

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