The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original 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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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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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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People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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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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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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