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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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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
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
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
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
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality

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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