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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
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
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
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
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
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 feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere

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