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A scholar must be broad-minded and resolute; the burden is heavy and the way long.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Wealth cannot corrupt, poverty cannot sway, and force cannot bend one.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
An army's commander may be taken, but a common person's resolve cannot.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Though the road is near, it is not reached without walking; though a task is small, it is not done without action.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Govern a state by uprightness, use surprise in war, and win the world by not overacting.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
In hardship, cultivate oneself; in success, benefit the world together.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Accumulate goodness into virtue, and clear understanding comes of itself; the sage's mind is complete.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Do not worry that others do not know you; worry that you lack ability.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Learn broadly, hold firmly to purpose, question earnestly, and reflect on what is near; therein is benevolence.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
The exemplary person seeks to be reserved in speech and diligent in action.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
People of old held back their words, ashamed that their actions might not live up to them.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
The exemplary person understands what is right; the petty person understands what is profitable.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Do not worry that no one recognizes you; seek to become worthy of recognition.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Do not worry about lacking a position; worry about what qualifies you to hold one.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
In dealing with the world, the exemplary person has no fixed allegiance or rejection, but follows what is right.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
The records and learned testimony are insufficient; if they were sufficient, I could substantiate it.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Nothing is softer than water, yet nothing surpasses it in overcoming the hard.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
If a person is without trustworthiness, I do not know how they can get along.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Observe widely, set aside what is doubtful, and act carefully on the rest; then regrets will be few.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Listen widely, set aside doubts, and speak carefully about the rest; then faults will be few.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
The exemplary person is broadly fair, not partisan; the petty person is partisan, not broadly fair.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Revisit what is old and gain new understanding; then you can be a teacher.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Governing through virtue is like the pole star: it stays in place while the other stars gather around it.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Do not worry that others fail to understand you; worry that you fail to understand others.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Attend to affairs earnestly and faithfully, spend frugally, care for people, and call on their labor at appropriate times.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
The exemplary person attends to the root; once the root is established, the way can grow.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Is it not noble to remain unresentful when others do not recognize you?
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
When everyone dislikes or likes something, examine it carefully.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
They who can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
The principled seek harmony without conformity; the petty seek conformity without harmony.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Learning without reflection confuses; reflection without learning endangers.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Those acting justly gain support; those departing from justice lose it.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; but to weigh and consider.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Seeing excellence, seek to match it; seeing failure, examine yourself.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Know what is enough to avoid disgrace; know when to stop to avoid danger.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
短引,公版原典
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
短引,歷史演說公版文本
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
短引,公版政治文本
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
短引,歷史書信公版文本
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
短引,公版文本
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience.
短引,公版言論自由文本
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯
What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.
短引,公版文本
權利審核通過 · 真象自譯