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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

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
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
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
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
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
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 feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek

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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