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When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

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There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

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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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If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

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The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

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The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.

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Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

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From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

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He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

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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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It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

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The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

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If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

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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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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

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