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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
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
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
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
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Failure Heart Men
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
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
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
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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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