"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius on example
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on attachment
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"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu on kindness
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"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure."

Lao-Tzu on failure
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"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."

Lao-Tzu on giving
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"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."

Sun Tzu on diplomacy
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius on friends and friendship
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"A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart."

Confucius on fools and foolishness
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"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them."

Confucius on faults
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius on family
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"Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things."

Confucius on faith
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Lao-Tzu on beginning
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