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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The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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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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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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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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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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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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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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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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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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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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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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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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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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