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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

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To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

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

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He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

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The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation.

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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

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As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

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Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.

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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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The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

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A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

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Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

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Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

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Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.

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Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

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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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I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.

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he who will not economize will agonize

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In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

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