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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Avoid Destroy Hate Man
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
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
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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