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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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There is a power in everything it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.
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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.
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