The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
MENCIUSThe tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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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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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Never lose your child’s heart.
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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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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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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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There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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