People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
MENCIUSTo 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.
More Mencius Quotes
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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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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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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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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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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 tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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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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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Never lose your child’s heart.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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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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All things are complete within ourselves.
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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
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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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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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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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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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Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
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The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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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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The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.
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