Mencius’ famous sayings about learning

(1) Without rules, there will be no circle. Translation: Without compasses and rulers, squares and circles cannot be drawn correctly.

(2) Right, then know the severity; measure, then know the length. Only by weighing a translation can one know its importance; only by measuring it can one know its length.

(3) People do not do anything, and then they can do something. The translator has to do something in order to be able to do something.

(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. Translation Even if there is a plant that is the easiest to grow, if it is exposed to the sun for one day and then frozen for ten days, nothing will grow again.

(5) Those who advance sharply will retreat quickly. Translation: People who move forward too quickly will retreat too quickly.

(6) The organ of the heart is thinking. If you think, you can get it. If you don’t think, you can’t get it. Translation: The organ of the heart is responsible for thinking. Only by thinking can we obtain things, but without thinking we cannot obtain them.

(7) Born in sorrow and died in happiness. The translation survives due to sorrow and declines due to addiction to peace and happiness.

Mencius’ famous sayings

1. A gentleman’s heart is based on benevolence and etiquette. 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.

2. Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust this 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 body, and mess up his actions, so his mind and forbearance are tempted, Gain what it cannot.

3. Wealth and honor cannot lead to adultery, poverty and lowliness cannot move, and power cannot yield.

4. Respect the teachings of Xiangxu, apply the meaning of filial piety and brotherhood, and award the white ones to live up to the road!

5. Killing someone without guilt is not benevolence, nor is it the right thing to do. It is unjust to take something out of it.

6. Those who abuse themselves cannot be talked to; those who give up on themselves cannot be talked to.

7. Benevolence is better than unkindness, just like water is better than fire. Nowadays, a person who is benevolent is like using a cup of water to save a load of fire. If it is not extinguished, it is said that water cannot overcome the fire. This is also the case with those who are unkind, and they will eventually perish.

8. Benevolence, justice, propriety and wisdom are not external to me, they are inherent in me.

9. When Jie and Zhou lost the world, they also lost their people; those who lost their people also lost their hearts. There is a way to win the world: if you win its people, you will win the world; if you win its people, you will win the world; if you win their hearts, you will win the people; if you win their hearts, you will have a way: gather with them what you want, and do not do to them what you want.