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Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

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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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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 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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
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
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
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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
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

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

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Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

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