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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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They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
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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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Thinking without learning makes one flightly, and learning without thinking is disaster.
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To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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To put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order. we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
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To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
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Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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Virtue is the strong stem of man’s nature; and music is the blossoming of virtue.
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What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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