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All things are complete within ourselves.

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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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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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 sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
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
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
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
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
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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

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