Mencius
"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."
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"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."
"الكلمات الرقيقة لا تنفذ إلى أعماق الرجال كنفوذ السمعة الطيبة."
Mencius
"Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind."
"الملك الحاضر أمانٌ للبال."
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"Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue."
"الصداقة مع المرء هي صداقة فضيلته."
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"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
"الأصدقاء هم الإخوة الذين لم تنجبهم أمهاتنا."
Mencius
"The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head."
"أصل المملكة في الدولة، وأصل الدولة في الأسرة، وأصل"
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"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."
"لا بهجة تعلو إدراك المرء صدقه عند محاسبة النفس."
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"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
"الصداقة عقلٌ واحدٌ في جسدين."
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"The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart."
"العظيم من لا يفقد قلبه الطفولي."
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"The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart."
"العظيم من يحافظ على قلبه الطفولي."
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"The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart."
"العظيم من لا يفقد قلب طفله."
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"There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does this differ from stabbing a man and killing him, and then saying, 'it was not I, it was the weapon?"
"هناك أناس يموتون جوعًا على الطرقات، وأنت لا تفتح لهم مخازن غلالك. وحين يموت الناس، تقول: "ليس بسببي، بل بسبب السنة". فبماذا يختلف هذا عن طعن رجل وقتله، ثم تقول: "لم أكن أنا، بل كان السلاح؟"
Mencius
"Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things."
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"The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it."
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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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