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To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

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Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

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He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

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Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.

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We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

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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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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

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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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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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The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.

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Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

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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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When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

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The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)

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Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

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Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

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Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.

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What is necessary is to rectify names.

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

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