He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
MENCIUSNever lose your child’s heart.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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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 disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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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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Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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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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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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The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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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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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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