If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
MENCIUSThe best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.
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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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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong.
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He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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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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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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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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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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Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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