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.
MENCIUSHe who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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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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The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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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 sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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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 best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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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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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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The great man is he who does not lose his 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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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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