Mencius Quotes

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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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  Ignorance, Knowing, Understanding

  Mencius (1942). “The Book of Mencius: (abridged)”

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• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

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  Positive, Christmas, Wisdom

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198

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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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  Weed, Men, Disease

  Mencius (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.380, Digireads.com Publishing

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• He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

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  Respect, Respecting Others

  Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.209

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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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  Inspiration, Wish, Trying

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• If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.

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  Running, Thinking, Mind

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• When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.

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  Exercise, Men, Office

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.323

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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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  Self Esteem, Lying, Self Confidence

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• The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

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  Learning, Heart, Sole

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• People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

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  People, Situation, Comment

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• The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

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  Feelings, Deference

  "The Mencius". 2A:6, as translated by Wing-tsit Chan in "A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy", p. 65, 1963.

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• One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

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  Believe, Book, Would Be

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• Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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• Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

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  Certain, Great Things, Capability

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• There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

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  Jobs, Artist, Power

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• The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

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  Compassion, Feelings, Humanity

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• The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

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  Dream, Memories, Things In Life

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• Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

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  Dog, Inspiration, Heart

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• Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

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  Time, Truth, Honesty

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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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  Men, Shame

  Mencius (2004). “Mencius”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

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  Men, Able, Bent

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.140

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• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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  Friendship, Brother, True Friend

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• There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

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  Self, Delight, Examination

  Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.345

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• A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

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  Men, Firsts, Despise

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.175

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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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  Exercise, Office, Heaven

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