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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven Mind Nature Understand
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality

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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