It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
MENCIUSFriends are the siblings God never gave us.
More Mencius Quotes
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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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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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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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 ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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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 best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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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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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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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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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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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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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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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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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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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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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 things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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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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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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