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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
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
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
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security

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