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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Path View Virtue
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
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Authority Difficult Family Government
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Path Philosophy Truth Way
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
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
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
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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End Evil Wait Years
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Believe Book
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
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Character Existence Men Shame
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
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Attitude Greatness Person Spirit
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 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

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

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