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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior
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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Choice Justice Right Togetherness
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water

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