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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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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 Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
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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