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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.

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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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 Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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

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