The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
More Mencius Quotes
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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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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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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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Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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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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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 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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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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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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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 great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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