Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
MENCIUSAll things are complete within ourselves.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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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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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.
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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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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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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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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 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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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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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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