All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
MENCIUSHe who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
More Mencius Quotes
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He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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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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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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