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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.

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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
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity

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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