1. Meaning: Speeches based on benevolent education are not as easy to be accepted as music with benevolent education. Good government orders are not as easy to win the love of the people as good education. "Benevolent words" are suspected of being empty preaching, while "benevolent voices" are meant to influence people through entertainment and make people want to be good and good; good policies are rigid and rigid and make people fearful, but good education convinces people with reason.

2. Source: "Mencius: Devoting Your Heart"

3. Context: Mencius said: "Benevolent words are not as profound as benevolent words that penetrate people deeply. Good governance is not as good as good teaching." The people will win over you. If you govern well, the people will fear you; if you teach well, you will love them; if you govern well, you will win the wealth of the people; if you teach well, you will win the hearts of the people."

4. Translation: Mencius said: Kind words and pleasant words are not as good as virtuous words. Prestige is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that good government orders are not as popular as good education. Good government orders are feared by the people; good education is loved by the people. Good government decrees can make people rich, and good education can make people realize their aspirations.

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Content summary of "Mencius: Devoting Your Heart":

This article focuses on Mencius's discussion of epistemology and self-cultivation, including many famous quotes The aphorism is still of great significance.

In "Mencius · Devoting Your Heart", Mencius believed that benevolence and righteousness are universal in the world. It states that "Kissing one's relatives is benevolence; respecting one's elders is righteousness; without others, reaching the world is the right thing." In other words, loving one's relatives is benevolence, and respecting one's elders is righteousness. There is no other reason for this, just because Benevolence and righteousness are universal. Mencius therefore put forward the idea that a gentleman should be benevolent to the people and love things.

The current meaning is that a gentleman cherishes all things without showing kindness; towards the common people, he shows kindness without treating them as relatives. But we must first be close to our relatives, and then extend our benevolence to the people; extend our benevolence to the people, and then cherish all things. Here, based on the benevolence proposed by Confucius, Mencius extended the scope of benevolence from "family" to "people" and then expanded it to the field of love for things.

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