"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?"
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Source: The Analects. Book by Confucius (Chapter I),
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