Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
MENCIUSThe ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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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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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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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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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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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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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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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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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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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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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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There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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