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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

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To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

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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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When frying small fish, disturb them little.

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Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

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A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

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To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

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A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties

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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

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He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

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He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

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At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

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The object of the superior man is truth.

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Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

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Don't let your past determine your destiny.

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If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

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