Mencius
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.Collection: God
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.Collection: Family
The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.Collection: Great
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.Collection: Friendship
A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.Collection: Time
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.Collection: Peace
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.Collection: Truth
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.Collection: Friendship
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.Collection: Men
If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.Collection: Music
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.Collection: Weed
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.Collection: Ignorance
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolenceCollection: Inspiration
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.Collection: Self Esteem
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.Collection: Positive
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.Collection: Respect
If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.Collection: Running
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.Collection: Exercise
The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.Collection: Learning
People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.Collection: People
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Feelings
One who believes all of a book would be better off without booksCollection: Believe
Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.Collection: Certain
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.Collection: Jobs
Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.Collection: Dog
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.Collection: Compassion
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.Collection: Men
The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.Collection: Dream
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.Collection: Time
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.Collection: Self
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.Collection: Warrior
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.Collection: Wish
The great person never loses a childlike spirit.Collection: Attitude
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.Collection: Leadership
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.Collection: Kindness
By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.Collection: Heaven
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.Collection: Water
Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.Collection: Men
Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.Collection: People
Human nature is disposed to do good.Collection: Human Nature
When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they all have a feeling of alarm and distress, not to gain friendship with the child's parents, nor to seek the praise of their neighbors and friends. From such a case, we see that a man without the feeling of commiseration is not a man. The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity.Collection: Children
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.Collection: Responsibility
If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?Collection: Years
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.Collection: Mean
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.Collection: Spring
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.Collection: Exercise
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.Collection: Lying
The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.Collection: Men
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.Collection: Men
Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.Collection: Reality