"The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way."
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"Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher."
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"Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have."
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"The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him."
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"When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning.""
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"When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors."
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"There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution."
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"There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute."
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"If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further."
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"If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?"
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"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything."
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"The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting."
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"Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it."
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"The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant."
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"Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men."
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"Humanity is the equity of the heart."
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"The object of the superior man is truth."
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"Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness."
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"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."
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"The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen."
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