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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

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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
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Ability Character Men
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Himself Love Respect
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Heart Heaven Philosophy
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Enemy Government Love
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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Artist Desire Men Stupidity
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Easy Men Philosophy Seek Way
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere

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