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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

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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 is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Greatness Heart Man Wisdom
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Born Fall Men Philosophy Spirituality Spring
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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Children Failure Heart Men
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 loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Love Reaction Respect Treat
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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Avoid Danger Death Myself
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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Divine Failure Perfection Philosophy Right
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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Decision Men Vigor
The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Difficult Hands Lying Warrior

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