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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .
Topic: Life
Source: None
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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Topic: Men and Women
Source: None
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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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The cautious seldom err.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Topic: Mistakes
Source: None
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Topic: Negativity
Source: None
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When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Topic: Negativity
Source: None
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A picture is a poem without words.
Topic: Painting
Source: Anet. ad Her. (4, 28)
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Study the past if you would divine the future.
Topic: Past
Source: None
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To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Topic: Perceptions
Source: None
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To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Topic: Perspective
Source: None
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Topic: Poverty
Source: None
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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Topic: Relationships
Source: None
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He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Topic: Reward
Source: None
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If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Topic: Sentiment
Source: None
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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue
Topic: Sincerity
Source: None
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The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be
deemed a scholar.
Topic: Students
Source: Analects (bk. XIV, ch. III)
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Learning without thought is labor lost.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Topic: Tools
Source: None
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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Topic: Vices
Source: None
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.
Topic: Virtue
Source: Analects (bk. I, ch. IV)
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have
neighbors.
Topic: Virtue
Source: Analects (bk. IV, ch. XXV)
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To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Topic: Wickedness
Source: None
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The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off,
but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
Topic: Will
Source: Analects (bk. IX, ch. XXV)
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Topic: Wisdom
Source: None
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Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
Topic: Worry
Source: None
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