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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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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
A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Country Greatness Strong Weakness
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
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
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
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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
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 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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
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 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 best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories

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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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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