Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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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 feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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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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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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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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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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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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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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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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