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Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?

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The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Failure Heart Men
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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 man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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 Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
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
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue

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