"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

Confucius on character
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"The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise, they are free from perplexities; and bold, they are free from fear."

Confucius on superiority
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"What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others."

Confucius on superiority
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"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."

Confucius on teacher
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"Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous."

Confucius on thoughts and thinking
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"Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it."

Confucius on vice
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"To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."

Confucius on virtue
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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius on virtue
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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

Confucius on wickedness
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on action
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Confucius on action
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"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."

Confucius on practice
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"A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."

Confucius on planning
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

Confucius on respectability
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius on revenge
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"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."

Confucius on prosperity
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"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

Confucius on war
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"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

Confucius on right and rightness
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"Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination."

Confucius on risk
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"When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant."

Confucius on scholars and scholarship
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self."

Confucius on service
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"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

Confucius on self-talk
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."

Confucius on simplicity
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"Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue."

Confucius on sincerity
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"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

Confucius on sorrow
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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