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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.

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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
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Freedom Hands Mindset One Liner Security
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 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
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
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
Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Character Eyes Hide Men Word
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government 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 way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand

The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.

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