All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
MENCIUSTo lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
More Mencius Quotes
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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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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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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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Human nature is disposed to do good.
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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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Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.
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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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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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By exhaustively examining one’s own mind,one may understand his nature. One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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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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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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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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The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
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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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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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