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Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

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When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

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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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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

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

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The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

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The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?

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Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

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When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

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Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

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Excess weakens the spirits.

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

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Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

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The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

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He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

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Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

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There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.

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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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An image is better than one thousand words

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