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Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

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Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.

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Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

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Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

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Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

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Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.

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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. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

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Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

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If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

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Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.

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Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

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The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

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Make fair agreements and stick to them

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A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

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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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The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.

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