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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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The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature

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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