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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.

The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.

When man’s nature prevails over his culture, he’s a savage. If culture wholly subdues nature, the result is a pedant. But when nature and culture are fused with consummate elegance, then we have a wise man.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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