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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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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

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What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

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The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

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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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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

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