If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
MENCIUSThe ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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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.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Evil 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.
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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 great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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