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

Mencius

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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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 way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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
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
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
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
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
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 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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water

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