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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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If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
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
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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Inspirational Men Simplicity Thinking
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
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 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
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

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

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