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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

Mencius

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
By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven Mind Nature Understand
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Failure Heart Men
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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Inspirational Men Simplicity Thinking
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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 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
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water

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