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.
MENCIUSLet 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.
More Mencius Quotes
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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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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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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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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All things are complete within ourselves.
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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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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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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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