"The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this."
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"To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it."
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"To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy."
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"Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand"
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"If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?"
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"When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again."
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"True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge."
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"Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties."
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"Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right."
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"He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker."
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"The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action."
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"Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government."
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"If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent."
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"Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred."
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"A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay."
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"When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects"
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"Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated."
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"The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous."
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"The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease."
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"If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame."
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