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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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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven Mind Nature Understand
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
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
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
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Failure Heart Men
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Leadership Men Spirituality
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Authority Difficult Family Government

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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