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Sincerity is the way to heaven.

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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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 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
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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
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
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
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
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
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Authority Difficult Family Government
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual

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