The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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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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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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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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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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