"If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children."
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"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
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"Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony."
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"Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills."
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"You cannot open a book without learning something."
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"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."
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"If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success."
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"Respect yourself and others will respect you."
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"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later."
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"The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort."
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"The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed."
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"Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger."
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"To know and not do, is to not yet know."
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"Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings."
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."
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"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
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"When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath."
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"Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three."
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