Human nature is disposed to do good.
MENCIUSA 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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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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In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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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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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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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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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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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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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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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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The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
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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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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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Never lose your child’s heart.
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Listen to a man’s words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
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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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Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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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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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands 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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Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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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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If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.
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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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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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