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Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

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Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

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I could see peace instead of this.

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Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

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I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.

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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

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To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

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To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

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When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

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

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Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform.

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Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

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He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

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