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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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