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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.

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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

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To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

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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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Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.

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If we don't know life, how can we know death?

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If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

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It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

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True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

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For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

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Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously

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Have no friends not equal to yourself.

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I used to listen to what others said, and expect them to act accordingly. But nowadays, I listen to what they say, and then observe what they do.

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How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them.

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The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

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Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

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