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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

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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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Leadership Men Spirituality
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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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

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