Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
MENCIUSThe sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
More Mencius Quotes
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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All things are complete within ourselves.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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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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Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.
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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 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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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.
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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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The great person never loses a childlike spirit.
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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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