If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
MENCIUSListen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
More Mencius Quotes
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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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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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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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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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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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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