There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
MENCIUSAll things are complete within ourselves.
More Mencius Quotes
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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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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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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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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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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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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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There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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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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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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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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Never lose your child’s heart.
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