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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
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
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
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
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere

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