Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
MENCIUSThe feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
More Mencius Quotes
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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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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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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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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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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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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Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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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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