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"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar."
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"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead."

"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

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"Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion."

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"Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same."

"When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled."

"When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state."
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