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Human nature is disposed to do good.

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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
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
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
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
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
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
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
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

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