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Unify Your Attention. Do Not Listen With Your Ears, But With Your Mind. Do Not Listen With Your Mind But With Your Essence.

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 Not Do To Others As You Would Not Like Done To Yourself: So There Will Be No Murmuring Against You In The Country, And None In The Family; Your Public Life Will Arouse No Ill-will Nor Your Private Life Any Resentment.

A Happy Union With Wife And Child Is Like The Music Of Lutes And Harps.

In The Book Of Poetry There Are Three Hundred Poems, But The Meaning Of All Of Them May Be Put In A Single Sentence: Have No Debasing Thoughts.

Many Seek Happiness Higher Than Men; Others Beneath Him. But Happiness Is The Same Height As Man.