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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational

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