To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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More Mencius Quotes
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He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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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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If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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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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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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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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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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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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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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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.
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So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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