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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

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
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
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
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
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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
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
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change Sincere
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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