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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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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
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
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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
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
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
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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

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