Mencius Quotes
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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
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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 benevolence
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People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
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He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
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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.
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.