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The Master said, “I once spent a whole day without eating and a whole night without sleeping, devoting myself entirely to thinking – but gained nothing. It is better to study than to ponder in vain.”
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The Master said, “To have faults and not correct them – that is truly a fault.”
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The Master said, “It is humanity that enlarges the Way, not the Way that enlarges humanity.”
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The Master said, “The noble person seeks from himself; the petty person seeks from others.”
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The Master said, “The noble person worries that after his death, his name will not be commensurate with his virtue – that he will not be remembered worthily.”
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The Master said, “The noble person worries about his own lack of ability, not about others’ failure to recognize him.”
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The Master said, “The noble person takes righteousness as his substance, practices it through ritual propriety, expresses it with humility, and completes it through trustworthiness. Truly a noble person!”
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The Master said, “For one who never asks, ‘What should I do? What should I do?’ I, for my part, can do nothing about him.”