Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
MENCIUSIf you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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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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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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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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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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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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If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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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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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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Never lose your child’s heart.
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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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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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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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