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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
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
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
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
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
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

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