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"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
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"Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established."
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"What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others."
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"Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."
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"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
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"Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."
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"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete."
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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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"He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed."
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"The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud."