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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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Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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

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