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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.

Mencius

By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven Mind Nature Understand
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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Inspirational Men Simplicity Thinking
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
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
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature

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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