Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
MENCIUSAll things are complete within ourselves.
More Mencius Quotes
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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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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.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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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 way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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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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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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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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If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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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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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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