He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
MENCIUSThe tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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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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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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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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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected 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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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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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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The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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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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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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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.
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Never lose your child’s heart.
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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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