The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
MENCIUSIf 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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When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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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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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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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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Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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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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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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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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