The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
MENCIUSMen must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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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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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 feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.
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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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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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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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He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
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Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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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.
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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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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 way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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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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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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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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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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