There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
MENCIUSSo I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
More Mencius Quotes
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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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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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 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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He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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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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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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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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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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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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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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