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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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 great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

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