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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

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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 small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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
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
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
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 person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories

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