When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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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 of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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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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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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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 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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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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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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The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
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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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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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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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