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.
MENCIUSTry 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.
More Mencius Quotes
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Never lose your child’s heart.
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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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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 ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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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 no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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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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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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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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