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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
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
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 learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
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 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
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Character Kindness Men
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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 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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
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

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