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1 Int | Sage was on the throne; the Superior Man was next in authority
2 Int | only distinction was of superior and inferior."45 And the
3 Int | that the new system was superior to the old, and this much
4 I | principles saying: "The superior man returns to the right
5 I | things, revile the former superior men and set themselves above
6 I | cherished the Sages and superior men, reading their books,
7 I | the hundred virtues of the Superior Man. If we are not thus "
8 I | means. Confucius said: "The Superior Man reforms that which is
9 I | cannot be hidden. When the Superior Man utters a word within
10 I(58)| XIII, 3. "Wherever the superior man passes through transformation
11 I | cannot be hidden. So the superior man is busy with self-reformation
12 I | except the Sage, even the superior man. But the superior man
13 I | the superior man. But the superior man does not attempt to
14 I | increased. The error of the superior man is like the eclipse
15 I | the case with Sages and superior men. For evil melts before
16 I | reality of the unmoved. Superior men cherish it, Heaven and
17 II | Sages and the conduct of superior men is determined by principles
18 II | did Confucius speak of the superior man; "Righteousness is his
19 II | familiarly to the house of his superior. You are to seek out the
20 III | will be no sign of anything superior, and duty will be slackly
21 IV | So is the "Way" of the superior man dark indeed but grows
22 IV | fast. Not wholly should a superior man give himself to joy
23 IV | Confucius said,—"Shishan is a superior man."6 So the government
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