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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

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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
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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 ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
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
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
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

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