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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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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
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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
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
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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
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
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
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

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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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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