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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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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
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
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
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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity

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