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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.

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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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
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
The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
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
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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

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