The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
MENCIUSA small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
More Mencius Quotes
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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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 great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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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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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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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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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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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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 great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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