The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
MENCIUSHuman nature is disposed to do good.
More Mencius Quotes
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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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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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 way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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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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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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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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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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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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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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People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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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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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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