38 Quotations by Mencius
- 1. A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.
- 2. A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child
- 3. A person with definite aims to be accomplished may be compared to the process of digging a well. To ...
- 4. Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic of man. As embodied in man's conduct, it is called ...
- 5. Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his ...
- 6. Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
- 7. Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmute ...
- 8. Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- 9. Great is the person who has not lost his childlike heart.
- 10. He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom ...
- 11. I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study. I on ...
- 12. If someone notices a child about to fall in a well, he will definitely feel alarmed and compassionat ...
- 13. If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can ...
- 14. Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
- 15. Let a person not do what his own sense of righteousness tells him not to do, and let him not desire ...
- 16. Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desir ...
- 17. Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ...
- 18. Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
- 19. Of all the parts of a person's body, there is none more excellent than the pupil of the eye. The pup ...
- 20. Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
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