To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
MENCIUSAll people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
More Mencius Quotes
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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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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Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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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 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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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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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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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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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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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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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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