Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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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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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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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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 feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.
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To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
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I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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