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Mencius

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Leadership Men Spirituality
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Authority Difficult Family Government
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity

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