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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.

Mencius

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
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
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
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Happiness Joy Reflection Sincere
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Deep Evil Goodness Negative Perspective Philosophy Spiritual
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
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Heaven Sincere
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship 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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