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Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

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The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

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When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

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Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.

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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

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A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.

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From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

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Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

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In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

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To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

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To know and not do, is to not yet know.

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Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

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Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

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A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.

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

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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

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Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.

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Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

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