All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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 Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Never lose your child’s heart.
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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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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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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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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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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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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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