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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

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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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
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
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
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

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