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.
MENCIUSVirtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
More Mencius Quotes
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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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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The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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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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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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Never lose your child’s heart.
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Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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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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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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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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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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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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