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The superior man is modest in his s…

17 May , 2024  

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

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The superior man is modest in his s…

17 May , 2024  

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

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The superior man is satisfied and c…

17 May , 2024  

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

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The superior man, when resting in s…

17 May , 2024  

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. […]

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The superior man…does not set his…

17 May , 2024  

The superior man…does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius, The Confucian Analects , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

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The supreme accomplishment is to bl…

17 May , 2024  

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Great short quote and quotation by: Arnold Toynbee , English historian & historical philosopher (1889 – 1975)

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The supreme end of education is exp…

17 May , 2024  

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things–the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Great short quote and quotation by: Johnson ,

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The supreme happiness in life is th…

17 May , 2024  

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Victor Hugo , French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

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The supreme happiness of life is th…

17 May , 2024  

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Great short quote and quotation by: Victor Hugo , French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

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Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984

The supreme irony of life is that h…

17 May , 2024  

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Great short quote and quotation by: Robert Heinlein, “Job”, 1984 , US science fiction author (1907 – 1988)

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Hazlitt

The surest hindrance of success is …

17 May , 2024  

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others. Great short quote and […]

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Boerhaave

The surest method against scandal i…

17 May , 2024  

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing. Great short quote and quotation by: Boerhaave ,

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