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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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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
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
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
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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