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The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

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To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

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If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

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Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

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The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

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He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.

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What is necessary is to rectify names.

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He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

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Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

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Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

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If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

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Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

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Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

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But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

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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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