The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
MENCIUSThe feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
More Mencius Quotes
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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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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Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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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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Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
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The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.
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One who believes all of a book would be better off without books.
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Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
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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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If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it–why wait till next year?
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