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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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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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
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
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
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
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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 is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

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