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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

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Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.

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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

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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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Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

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

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Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

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To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

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The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

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Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.

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The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

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Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

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

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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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If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.

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To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.

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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.

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We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

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There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

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