All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
MENCIUSTreat 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.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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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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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 gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s 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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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express 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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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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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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