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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

Mencius

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
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
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
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men

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