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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 sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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 feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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Avoid Danger Death Myself
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
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
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
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 feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking

By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

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