"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."
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"Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger."
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"Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself."
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"The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting."
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"If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything."
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
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"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."
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"You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
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"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in."
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"There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them."
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"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."
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"If you want to change the world, first change your heart."
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"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
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"There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious."
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"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"
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"When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them."
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"A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love."
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"Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again."
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"Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand."
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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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