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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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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
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
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
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
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
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
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
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Avoid Destroy Hate Man

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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