Never lose your child’s heart.
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.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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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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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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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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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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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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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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