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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.

Mencius

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
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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Deep Desire People Philosophy
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
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
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness 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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