The cautious seldom err.

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The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

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He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

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