148 Quotes by Mencius

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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.

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

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

The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.

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

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.

The fruit of humanity is devotion to one's parents. The fruit of righteousness is to respect one's elders. The fruit of wisdom is to understand these two and not to betray them. The fruit of propriety is to regulate and polish them. The fruit of music is the joy that comes from rejoicing in them. When one rejoices in them, they grow. When they grow, how can they be stopped? And when they cannot be stopped, unconsciously one's feet begin to dance and one's arms begin to wave.