Mencius’ famous aphorisms are as follows:

1. Fight for land and kill people to fill the countryside; fight for cities and kill people to fill the city. This so-called cannibalism at the expense of the land is an unacceptable crime. To die.

2. If I want to rule the world peacefully, who else can I do in today’s world?

3. Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust a person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind and will, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his heart, and disturb his actions. Benefit from what it cannot do.

4. A gentleman is always kind to others.

5. A gentleman has benevolence in his heart and etiquette in his heart. A benevolent person loves others, a polite person respects others. Those who love others will always be loved by others, and those who respect others will always be respected by others.

6. Only benevolent people can think of big things as small things. This is the story of Tang and Ge, and King Wen of Kunyi.

7. Wealth and honor cannot lead to adultery, poverty and lowliness cannot move, and power cannot bend.

8. Although there are things that are easy to grow in the world, if they are violent in one day and cold in ten days, nothing can survive.

9. When you are rich, your children will be poor; when you are unlucky, your children will be violent. This is not because of talent sent from heaven, but because it is the result of being addicted to one's heart.

10. The benevolent are invincible.

11. If you are poor, you will be good for yourself; if you are rich, you will be good for the world.

12. Those who have permanent property have perseverance, and those who do not have perseverance have no perseverance. If you don't have perseverance, you will do everything you can to ward off evil spirits.

13. Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust this person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions, so he will be tempted to endure. Gain what it cannot.

14. Wealth and honor cannot lead to adultery, poverty and lowliness cannot change, and power cannot yield. This is called a true man.

15. King Wen's territory is seventy miles away. Those who eat cud and grass can go as far as they can, and those who avoid pheasants can go as far as they can. It is the same as the people. The people think it is small, which is not appropriate.

16. If the king regards his ministers as his hands and feet, then his ministers will regard him as his heart; if the king regards his ministers as dogs and horses, then his ministers will regard him as a countryman; if his ministers regard his ministers as earth and mustard, then his ministers will regard him as their own. Like a bandit.

17. I heard that within Jiaoguan, there is an area of ??forty miles, and killing an elk there is like committing murder.

18. Those who gain the right will get many help, while those who lose the right will get little help.

19. A promising person is like digging a well. If the well is dug nine times and fails to reach the spring, it is like abandoning the well.

20. Grain is a beautiful plant. It is not as good as catkins because it is not ripe. Furen is just about being familiar with it.