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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

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Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

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The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied

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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

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You cannot open a book without learning something.

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In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

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Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

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

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The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

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The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

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Every man knows the smell of his own fart.

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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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Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

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Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

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Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

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Excess weakens the spirits.

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A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

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Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

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Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

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