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When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
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The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.
Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?
The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.
Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.
If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
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In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.
