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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Another Arise Cleverness Confusion
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Difficulty First Interest Later
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Accord Act Bolt Classes
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Ashamed Deeds Gentleman Match
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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Feared Government More Oppressive
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Hereditary Ought Planning Posterity
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Difficult Find Good Modesty
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Compassion Courage Moral Qualities
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Deceived Distrust Friends Shameful
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Acquired Efforts Encourage Endeavor
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If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Fear Find Heart Look
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Compared Exercises Virtue Government
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Achieve Bad Difficult Easy
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Consideration Direction Magnitude Taken
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Better Good Thoughts Large
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The object of the superior man is truth.

Object Superior Man Truth
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Change Constant Happiness Must
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My mind is my own church.
Church Mind My Own Own
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Ability Distressed Fact Limitations
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Approve Business Conduct Conscience
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Brethren Country Good Mankind
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When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, 'It's already so big - what more can you do?' And since then, we've multiplied that success tenfold.

Big Everyone Louis More
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Believe Believing Consist Consists
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It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Arms Certain Close Immediately
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I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

Fiscal France French Fulfill
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I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

Business Diminish Ever Greater
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Best Blessing Even Every
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Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Biggest Brand Exclusive Expansion
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I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

Campaigns Designers Discuss Future
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When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

Artistic Creative Dialogue Management
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Human Human Nature Itself Nature
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The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.

Admire Brilliant Business Ideas
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Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, 'Don't worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.'

Always Come Consequence Job
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In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.

Business Control Impatient Important
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What I love is to win. What I love is being number one.

Being Love Number Win
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Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Every Nickname Nicknames Title
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You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

Approach Business Gut Rationality
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Abolish Any Branches Establish
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It's very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.

Complete Designer Freedom Genius
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

Art Balance Business Crazy
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I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?

Choir Early Important Itself
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.

Careful Colors Energy Lights
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Appearing Ask Liberty Nature
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Acres Battle Cause Consequences
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I'm kinda a first take dude. The first time, cut that mic on, and the spirit is there, and what comes on the mic - I mean, even if I'm mumbling, I like to keep a lot of that initial thing that comes out. Cause that's the spirit.

Time Spirit Cut Dude
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Always Moderation Principle Temper
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

Always Growing Growth Guitarist
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Basis Cannot Discover Every
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Affront Falsehood Treat Complaisance
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Changes Creates Flow Forward
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