The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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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When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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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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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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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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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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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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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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