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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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Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Leadership Men Spirituality
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
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
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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

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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