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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

Mencius

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
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
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Alone Enough Exercise Government Law Practice Virtue
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
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 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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
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
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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Inspirational Men Simplicity Thinking

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