The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
MENCIUSThe ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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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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Never lose your child’s heart.
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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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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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When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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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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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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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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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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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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