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There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious.

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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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Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

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Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

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The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.

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If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

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The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

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Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.

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What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

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To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

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The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

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If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

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One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

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A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

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When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

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