Mencius

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."
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"Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind."
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"Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue."
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"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."
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"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."
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"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."
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"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
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"The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart."
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"The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart."
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"The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart."
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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?"
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"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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