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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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Do unto others what you want done unto you.

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Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

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Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

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Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

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Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

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At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

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A man of wisdom delights in water.

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If we don't know life, how can we know death?

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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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It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

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The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.

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The object of the superior man is truth.

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We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

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Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

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Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

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A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

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