He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
MENCIUSIf the King loves music, it is well with the land.
More Mencius Quotes
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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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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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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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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All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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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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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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