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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 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 right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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 ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
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
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection

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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