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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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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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Leadership Men Spirituality
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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 way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
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 the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
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
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate 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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual

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