Quotes by Mencius

“A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.”

“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.”

“Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications those are the good words.”

“Words that defy reality are ominous. And its ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.”

“Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.”

“Theres only one way to know if people are good or evil: look at the choices they make. We each contain precious and worthless, great and small. Never injure the great for the sake of the small, or ...”

“Integrity, wisdom, skill, intelligence such things are forged in adversity.”

“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...”

“For nurturing the mind, theres nothing like paring your desires away to a very few. If you have few desires, there may still be some capricious whims in your mind, but theyll be few. If you have ma...”

“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.”

“Friends are the siblings God never gave us.”

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

“Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.”

“Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.”

“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”

“The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.”

“If someone stops where they should not, theyll stop anywhere. If someone slights a person they should treat generously, theyll slight anyone. And if someone races ahead, they retreat in a hurry.”

“The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.”

“The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.”

“There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.”