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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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If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.

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To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

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

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Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

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Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.

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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

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Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

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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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To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

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To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

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The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct

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The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

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At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

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What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

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