(1) Without rules, there will be no circle. ——Mencius

(2) With power, you can then know the importance; with measure, you can then know the length. ——Mencius

(3) People do not do anything, and then they can do something. ——Mencius

(4) 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. ——Mencius

(5) Those who advance sharply will retreat quickly. ——Mencius

(6) The organ of the heart is thinking. If you think, you will get it. If you don’t think, you will not get it. ——Mencius

(7) Born in sorrow and died in happiness. ——Mencius

(8) Only benevolent people should be in high positions. Being unkind and holding a high position is spreading evil to others. ——Mencius

(9) If the emperor is unkind, he will not protect the world; if the princes are unkind, he will not protect the country; if the ministers and officials are unkind, they will not protect the ancestral temple; if the scholars and common people are unkind, they will not protect the four bodies. ——Mencius

(10) If the king is benevolent, he will be invincible in the world. ——Mencius

(11) Save punishment, reduce taxes, and make farming easier. ——Mencius

(12) The benevolent are invincible. ——Mencius

(13) For a five-acre house with mulberry trees, a man of fifty can wear silk. Chickens, dolphins, dogs, and pigs are all animals that have not lost their season. Those who are seventy years old can eat meat. If you do not take away a hundred acres of land, then a family of eight will not be hungry. I sincerely follow the teachings of Xiangxu, apply the meaning of filial piety and brotherhood, and award the white ones to live up to the road. ——Mencius

(14) By changing the fields and reducing taxes, the people can become rich. ——Mencius

(15) A king is benevolent, and no one is unkind; a king is righteous, and no one is unjust; a king is upright, and no one is unrighteous.

——Mencius