"When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war."
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"Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this."
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"Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish."
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"If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others."
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"The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose."
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"The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it."
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"The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness."
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"When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable."
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"One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel."
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"We should worship as though the deity were present."
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"To love a thing means wanting it to live."
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"A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled."
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"The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal."
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"Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows."
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"When the wind blows,the grass bends."
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"Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way."
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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 ought to be done, remains undone."
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"The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing."
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"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others."
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"The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most."
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