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(63 votes)   I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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(63 votes)   Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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(63 votes)   The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

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(61 votes)   479 BC

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(57 votes)   To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

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(55 votes)   He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

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(55 votes)   You cannot open a book without learning something.

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(54 votes)   To love a thing means wanting it to live.

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(54 votes)   To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

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(53 votes)   Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

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(52 votes)   It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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(49 votes)   Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.

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(48 votes)   When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.

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(48 votes)   When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

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(47 votes)   Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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