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Therefore, the wood is straight by the rope, the gold is sharp, the gentleman is knowledgeable, and he saves himself every day, so he knows clearly without fault.
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Those who know themselves don't complain, and those who know themselves don't complain. He who complains about others is poor, and he who complains about heaven has no ambition.
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If you don't climb the mountain, you don't know the height of the sky; Don't face the deep stream, I don't know the thickness of the ground.
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A gentleman disapproves of people who know too much but know nothing, who learn too much but have no direction, and who love too much but have no fixed direction.
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If you don't accumulate steps, you will be thousands of miles away; If you don't accumulate small streams, you won't be a river.
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The monarch is also a ship, and Shu Ren is also water. The knife cuts bread and fingers.
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Heaven can be biological, but it can't distinguish things. The earth can carry people, but it cannot cure diseases.
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At the age of eighteen, I am not cold, and I don't understand pine and cypress. It is not difficult to know a gentleman.
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Ask if you don't know, give in if you can't learn, and be virtuous.
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If you carve but give up halfway, even a rotten piece of wood will not break; If you keep carving, even metal and stone can be carved.
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Leap, not ten steps; This is a great contribution to the success of Ma Xu.
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Although the Tao is close, it cannot be done; Small as it is, nothing is impossible.
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Although the form is evil, the heart is good and harmless to the gentleman.
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Everyone who fights is self-righteous, others are not.
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The sound is not small but not heard, and the line is not hidden but not shaped.
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Gentleman's nature is the same, and goodness is empty of things.