Human nature is disposed to do good.
MENCIUSThe sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
More Mencius Quotes
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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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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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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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I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
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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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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
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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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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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The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
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A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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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 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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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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