I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
XunziThere are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
XunziNow it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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