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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

Mencius

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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
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
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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Avoid Danger Death Myself
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
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 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 lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
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
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 learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

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