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Confucius

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

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Hating requires little effort because it comes naturally, while loving takes patience and hard work. This reflects a broader truth that valuable and positive experiences demand more effort, whereas negative ones happen with little resistance.

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