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.
MENCIUSI dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
More Mencius Quotes
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Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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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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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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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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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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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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Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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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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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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