The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
MENCIUSHe who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
More Mencius Quotes
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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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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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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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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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 wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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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 best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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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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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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