Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
MENCIUSFriendship is one mind in two bodies.
MENCIUSA man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
MENCIUSHe who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
MENCIUSThe disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
MENCIUSSo I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
MENCIUSNever lose your child’s heart.
MENCIUSThe gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
MENCIUSOnly when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
MENCIUSMen must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
MENCIUSA small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
MENCIUSThe Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
MENCIUSHuman nature is disposed to do good.
MENCIUSLet 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.
MENCIUSThe 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.
MENCIUSIs it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
MENCIUSHeaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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