The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
MENCIUSIf the King loves music, it is well with the land.
More Mencius Quotes
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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
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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.
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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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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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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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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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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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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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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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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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