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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

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Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
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
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
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

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