When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.
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The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.
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