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"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt."
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"The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest."
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"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
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"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
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"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it."
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"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"From caring comes courage."
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"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
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"One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others."
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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
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"Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee."
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
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"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
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"There is nothing good or evil save in the will."
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"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
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"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
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