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If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others

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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

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The whole end of speech is to be understood.

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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

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First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

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You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved.

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Whatever heaven ordains is best.

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Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

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The man of humanity delights in mountains

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At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

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Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

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The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

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Study the past, if you would divine the future.

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The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

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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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The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

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

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The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart.

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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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