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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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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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 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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
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
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
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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

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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