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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

Mencius

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
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
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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Ability Change Sincere
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
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
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
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality

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