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A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

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Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

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He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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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 commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

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Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

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Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.

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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

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Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

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Whatever heaven ordains is best.

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Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

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When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

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Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

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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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In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

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He who chases two rabbits, catches none.

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The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty.

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Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

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