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If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
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
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
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational

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