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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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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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man 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
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
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
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
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
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity

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