"The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree."
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"If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?"
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"The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him."
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"Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue."
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"Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf."
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"Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption."
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"Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man."
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"From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides."
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"When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path."
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"The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself."
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"If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?"
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"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things."
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"A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child."
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"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."
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"If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life"
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"It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example."
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"The inner nature of man is the province of Music."
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"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
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"If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things."
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