One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
MENCIUSIs it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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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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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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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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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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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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