Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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The 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.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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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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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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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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Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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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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