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

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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Avoid Destroy Hate Man
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
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
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
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 sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
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
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love

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