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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
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 best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
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
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
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
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
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
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit

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