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The Master said, He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
~ in Analects
Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
~ in Analects
We don’t know yet about life, how can we know about death?
~ in Aphorisms
Men’s natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them apart.
~ in Analects
The absolute truth is indestructible. Being eternal, it is self-existent. Being self-existent, it is infinite. Being infinite, it is vast and deep. Being vast and deep, it is transcendental and intelligent.
~ in The Doctrine of Mean
A picture is a poem without words.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
If you enjoy what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
The superior man thinks always of virtue, the common man thinks of comfort.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
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Governors of Roman provinces were given freedom to rule them in their own manner so long as they did not mess things up too bad. However, then, like now, there were those governors who pushed the self-destruct button. One such governor of Sicily, Verres, is noted to have spoken openly of the three fortunes he needed to make; one to pay the debts he incurred in getting elected to the office, one to bribe the jurors in chase he was indicted, and another to live on for the rest of his life.
