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.
MENCIUSIn abundance prepare for scarcity.
More Mencius Quotes
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The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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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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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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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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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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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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Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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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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Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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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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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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