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…

- Mencius

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

- Mencius

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

- Mencius

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

- Mencius

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.

- Mencius

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 h…

- Mencius

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.…

- Mencius

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

- Mencius

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

- Mencius