If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
MENCIUSHeaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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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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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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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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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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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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