“When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.”
― The Analects
― The Analects
“Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”
― The Analects
― The Analects
“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.”
― The Analects
― The Analects
“A hundred times I was upon the point of killing myself; but still I loved life. This ridiculous foible is perhaps one of our most fatal characteristics; for is there anything more absurd than to wish to carry continually a burden which one can always throw down? to detest existence and yet to cling to one's existence? in brief, to caress the serpent which devours us, till he has eaten our very heart?”
― Candide
― Candide
“Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.”
― The Analects
― The Analects
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