So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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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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There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
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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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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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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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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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Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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