The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
MENCIUSIf you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
More Mencius Quotes
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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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All things are complete within ourselves.
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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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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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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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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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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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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 regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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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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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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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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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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