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The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.

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The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

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Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

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

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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 superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

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A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

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The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

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Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are?

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Words are the voice of the heart.

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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

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He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

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When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

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

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I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.

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If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

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