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"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
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Personal Development
"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."
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Personal Development
"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."
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Personal Development
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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Personal Development
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
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Personal Development
"The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished."
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Personal Development
"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
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Personal Development
"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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Personal Development
"Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach the edge. Then be kind and rewind."
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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."
Death
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
Change
"The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials."
Life
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
Knowledge
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
Want
"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more."
Communication
"The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite."
Life
"If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish."
Communication
"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
Man
"Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch'iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I."
Ethics
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