Human nature is disposed to do good.
MENCIUSTreat 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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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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The great man is he who does not lose his 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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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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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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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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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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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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If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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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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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all 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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