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Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.
A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties
The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
For us there is but one crime: to be untrue to ourselves.
Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.
Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.
Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.
There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
Nothing and no one in the world is valuable or worthless.
When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.
As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.
I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.
He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.
A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost
If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?
People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.
Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.