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Mencius
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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.
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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
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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
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A great man is one who has not lost the child's heart.
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All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men those who follow the part which is little are little men.
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Sincerity is the way to heaven.
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People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
Mencius
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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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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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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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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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.
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Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
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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
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.
Mencius
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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