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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.

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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Ability Change 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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere
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
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Act Ignorance Leadership Life Understand
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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
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
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
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
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World

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