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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

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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
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
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
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 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
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 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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See

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