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Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

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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 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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
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
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
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
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

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

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