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If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

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The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

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The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

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Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.

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A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.

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

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One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

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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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A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.

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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

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The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.

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The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

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Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

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Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

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Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

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Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

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The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

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Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

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