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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.


— Mencius


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


— Mencius


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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.


— Mencius


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Sincerity is the way to heaven.


— Mencius


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


— Mencius


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


— Mencius


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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.


— Mencius


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If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.


— Mencius


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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.


— Mencius


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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.


— Mencius


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Kung. This however is not proof of innate evil because a clear thinking person would avoid causing harm to others. "
This saying should not be taken as an instigation to violence against authorities but as an application of Confucian philosophy to society.

Mencius (Chinese: 孟子; pinyin: Mèng Zǐ; Wade–Giles: Meng4 Tzu3; Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄇㄥˋ ㄗˇ; most accepted dates: 372 – 289 BCE; other possible dates: 385 – 303/302 BCE) was a Chinese philosopher who was arguably the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.

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