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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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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
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
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
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
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
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
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men

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