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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
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
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
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

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