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Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

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Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

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I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

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Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

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Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

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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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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

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Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

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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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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

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An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

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There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

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The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

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That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

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In language clarity is everything.

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The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)

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The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

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