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The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
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Study the past if you want to define the future.
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Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.
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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
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A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
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Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.
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When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.
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We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living.
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The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
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The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied.
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If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.
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Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.
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It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
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A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.
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The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.
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Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.
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We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.
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Rotten wood cannot be carved.
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When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
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Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
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Have no friends not equal to yourself.
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The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
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