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For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

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To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

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The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.

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Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

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The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

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When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

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Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

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You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go

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

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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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I used to listen to what others said, and expect them to act accordingly. But nowadays, I listen to what they say, and then observe what they do.

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

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

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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

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Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

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To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

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Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.

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It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

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