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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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 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
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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Difficult Evil Men Seek
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
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Himself Mind Nature
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Greatness Men
If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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King Land Music Rule
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
The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Lost Mindset Way
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
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Death Freedom
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

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

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