The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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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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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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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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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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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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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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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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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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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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