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

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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
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
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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

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