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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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To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
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
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
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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Avoid Danger Death Myself
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
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
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love

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