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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

Mencius

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Oneself Understand
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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Deep Feeling Human People Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Capability Greatness Inspirational
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Choice Himself Rich
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 Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Effort People Spiritual
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Compassion Feeling Humanity
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
The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Compassion Love
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
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset

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