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The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth 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
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
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
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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 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
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
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
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
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
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

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

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