The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
MENCIUSThe tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
More Mencius Quotes
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If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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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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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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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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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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A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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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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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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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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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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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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