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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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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
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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
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
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men

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