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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

Mencius

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
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
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Hate Men
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
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
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
Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Goodness Human Nature One Liner Spirituality
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
Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Heaven Men Thinking
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
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Easy Journey Lying Men Philosophy Seek Way
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
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Freedom Men Pet
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Character Friendship Men
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

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