If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
MENCIUSHe who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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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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To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one’s life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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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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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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