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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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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
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
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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

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