Quote

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mencius
Philosopher
Writer
Zhulou
Meng Ke
ሜንግዙ
Meng-tze
Mind
Valentine
Educational
Bodies
Friendship
Friends
Two
Body

More quotes by Mencius

Image
If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.
Mencius
Image
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Mencius
Image
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand
Mencius
Image
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
Mencius
Image
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.
Mencius
Image
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?
Mencius
Image
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books
Mencius
Image
A small country cannot contend with a great the few cannot contend with the many the weak cannot contend with the strong
Mencius
Image
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
Mencius
Image
Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward.
Mencius
Image
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
Mencius
Image
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius
Image
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
Mencius
Image
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.
Mencius
Image
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.
Mencius
Image
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
Mencius
Image
The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
Mencius
Image
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
Mencius
Image
The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.
Mencius
Image
There is a power in everything it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
Mencius