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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
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
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor

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