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He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

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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
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 sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
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
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
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
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
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
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

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

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