“ There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does th… Mencius
“ The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head. Mencius
“ A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed. Mencius
“ He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. Mencius
“ 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
“ If someone stops where they should not, they’ll stop anywhere. If someone slights a person they should treat generously, they’ll slight anyone. And if someone races ahead, they retreat in a hurry. Mencius
“ For nurturing the mind, there’s nothing like paring your desires away to a very few. If you have few desires, there may still be some capricious whims in your mind, but they’ll be few. If you have man… Mencius
