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Difficulty Quote by Confucius

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“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.”

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Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

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Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

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To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

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A picture is poem without words.

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Heaven means to be one with God.

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Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

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