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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

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Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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
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
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
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself

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