People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
MENCIUSEvil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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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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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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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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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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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.
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Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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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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All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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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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