The sentence "Everyone has the love of beauty" has its source. It comes from "Mencius Gaozi 1" - "Everyone has the love of beauty, and the heart of shame and disgust" , Everyone has it. Everyone has the heart of respect. Everyone has the heart of right and wrong. "But the source of the following sentence "The way of admiring beauty is the eternal style" has not been found. People themselves understand and extend it based on the previous sentence.

It means: Everyone has the love of beauty; the habit of loving beauty has been a trend from ancient times to the present. Extended information

The last seven chapters of the book "Mencius" are a collection of Mencius' remarks during the Warring States Period. They record Mencius' debates with other schools of thought, his words and deeds to his disciples, and his lobbying of the princes. It was compiled by Mencius and his disciples (Wan Zhang, etc.).

"Mencius" records Mencius's thoughts on governing the country, political strategies (benevolent government, the distinction between kings and hegemons, people-centeredness, caring about the emperor's wrong intentions, the people are noble and the country is inferior to the king) and political actions. It was written around the middle of the Warring States Period and is a Confucian classic. The starting point of his theory is the theory of good nature and advocates the rule of virtue. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi combined "Mencius", "The Analects of Confucius", "Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" together as the "Four Books".

Since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been regarded as a book that has been passed down from family to family. Just like today's textbooks. "Mencius" is the largest and heaviest of the Four Books, with more than 35,000 words. From then until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Four Books" had been a required part of the imperial examination. The theory of the book "Mencius" is not only pure and profound, but the articles are also extremely powerful and beautiful. (Five Classics: "Poetry", "Book", "Li", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn")

"Mencius" is a work that records Meng Ke's words and deeds, and is also one of the important classics of Confucianism. The chapters include: (1) "King Hui of Liang" (Part 1 and Part 2), (2) "Gongsun Chou" (Part 1 and Part 2), (3) "Teng Wengong" (Part 1 and Part 2), (4) "Li Lou" (Part 1 and Part 2), (5) ) "Wan Zhang" (top and bottom), (6) "Gao Zi" (top and bottom), (7) "Jin Xin" (top and bottom).

The prose of "Mencius" is majestic, full of emotions, eloquent and highly contagious. It has been passed down to future generations and has far-reaching influence, becoming one of the classic works of Confucianism.

Reference: Mencius_Baidu Encyclopedia