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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
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 way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
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; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking

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