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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
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men

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