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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
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Friendship God
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
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Force Heart Men Power Resistance
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
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
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
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
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Body Friendship Oneself
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
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
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Honesty Time Truth
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Evil Heaven Men Reality
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

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