Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
MENCIUSEvery duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
More Mencius Quotes
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Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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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.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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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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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Let 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.
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All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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