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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

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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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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 best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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
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
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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Inspirational Yourself
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 feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Feeling Right Wisdom Wrong
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
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
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
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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Deep Desire People Philosophy
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
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven 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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Goodness Man Reality
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Equality Heaven People See
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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Choice Justice Right Togetherness

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