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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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I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

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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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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

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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 firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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