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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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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 Mind Nature Understand
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Advice People Talk
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
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
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
All things are complete within ourselves.
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One Liner Perfection
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity

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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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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