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

Mencius

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
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Dream Friendship Life Material Memories
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
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
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
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
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
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
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
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
Never lose your child’s heart.
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Children Heart One Liner

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