There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
MENCIUSThe feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
More Mencius Quotes
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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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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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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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 complete within ourselves.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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