When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties
He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.
One joy dispels a hundred cares.
Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.
The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.
Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
If you want to change the world, first change your heart.
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.
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