The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
MENCIUSSecure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
More Mencius Quotes
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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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All things are complete within ourselves.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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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 disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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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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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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Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.
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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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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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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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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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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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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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