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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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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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

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