"If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness."
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"Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts."
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"By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost."
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"When strict with oneself, one rarely fails."
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"Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people."
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"The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm."
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"The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief."
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."
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"Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving"
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"The man who loves his job never works a day in his life."
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"There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially."
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"A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel."
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
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"The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit."
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"Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing."
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"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
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"There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice."
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"A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top."
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"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
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"Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile."
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