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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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There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

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Time flows away like the water in the river.

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Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.

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The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

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There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

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Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

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A picture is poem without words.

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Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

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Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

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To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

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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 I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

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In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

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It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

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Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

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