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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
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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
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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Inspirational Yourself
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 exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
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 great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
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
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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