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- To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.
- The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.
- A perfumed butthole is still a butthole.
- Man who goes to doghouse will end up in cathouse.
- You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.
- Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
- When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.
- Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if…
- Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world
- Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts.…
- If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what…
- If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
- A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves…
- How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
- Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at…
- It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.
- When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO…
- The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led…
- On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong.…
- When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his…
- Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
- What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
- Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them…
- The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
- Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people…
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