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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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
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
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
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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 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 exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

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