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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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
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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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
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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Heart Heaven Philosophy
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand

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