The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
MENCIUSThe ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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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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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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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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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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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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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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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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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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