A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
MENCIUSIt is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
More Mencius Quotes
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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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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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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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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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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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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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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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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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Never lose your child’s heart.
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So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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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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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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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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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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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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