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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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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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 loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
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
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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

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