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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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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
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 foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World

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