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.
MENCIUSWhen one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
More Mencius Quotes
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The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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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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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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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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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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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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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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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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The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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