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Mencius has 84 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
• Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
• Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path…
• There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
• People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.
• He who respects others is respected by them.
• Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.
• To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really…
• I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid…
• The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
• He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small…

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