He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
MENCIUSIn abundance prepare for scarcity.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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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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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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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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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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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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