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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself. - [Goodness] Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. - [Friendship] He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. - [Character] He who respects others is respected by them. - [Respect] He whose goodness is part of himself, is what is called a real man. - [Goodness] 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. - [Goodness] If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. - [Music] In abundance prepare for scarcity. - [Abundance] Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. - [Affliction] Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. - [Kindness] Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do. - [Freedom] Men must decide on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. - [Decision] Sincerity is the way of heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man. - [Sincerity] So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness. - [Right] 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. - [Duty] The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument. - [Virtue] 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. Do you go home and search for it. - [Truth] Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. - [Truth] Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone carry themselves into practice. - [Government] We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. - [Adversity] What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. - [Duty] If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire. - Works (bk. IV, pt. I, ch. 7) [Government] Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. - Works (bk. IV, pt. II, ch. VIII) [Decision] The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. - Works (bk. IV, pt. II, ch. XII) [Greatness] There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. - Works (bk. VII, ch. IV) [Sincerity]
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