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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
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
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
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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Greatness Heaven Suffering
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
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
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

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