When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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All 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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When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
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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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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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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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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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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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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 people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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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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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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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 disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.
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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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