Mencius Quotes

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries f...

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

There’s only one way to know if people are good or evil: look at the choices they make. We each cont...

Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure...

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

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

For nurturing the mind, there’s nothing like paring your desires away to a very few. If you have few...

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

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the fam...

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

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

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

Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications – those are the good wo...

If someone stops where they should not, they’ll stop anywhere. If someone slights a person they shou...

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men wil...

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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