Mencius’ famous sayings

1. Don’t rely on elders, don’t rely on nobles, and don’t rely on brothers to be friends.

2. If you enjoy the people's happiness, the people will also enjoy their happiness; if you care about the people's worries, the people will also worry about their worries. He is happy with the world and worried about the world. However, there is no one who is not a king.

3. If you enjoy the people's happiness, the people will also enjoy their happiness; if you care about the people's worries, the people will also worry about their worries.

4. A respectful person will not insult others, and a thrifty person will not take away from others.

5. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

6. Those who have gained the right will get many help, while those who have lost the right will get little help.

7. 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.

8. If you are not ashamed, you are not like a human being. How can you be like a human being?

9. Everyone has a heart of compassion; everyone has a heart of shame and disgust; everyone has a heart of respect; everyone has a heart of right and wrong. The heart of compassion is benevolence; the heart of shame and hatred is righteousness; the heart of respect is courtesy; the heart of right and wrong is wisdom. Benevolence, justice, propriety, and wisdom are not inherent in me, but they come from outside.

10. The weather is not as good as the right place, and the right place is not as good as the people.

11. Five of the so-called unfilial persons in the world: the four branches of love, disregarding the support of parents, the first is unfilial; the abandonment of drinking, disregarding the support of parents, the second is unfilial; being fond of goods and wealth, and having an unfilial wife, The third kind of unfilial piety is to ignore the support of one's parents; the fourth kind of unfilial piety is to kill one's parents according to the desires of one's ears and eyes; the fifth kind of unfilial piety is to be brave and aggressive and endanger one's parents.

12. Those who love others will always be loved by others; those who respect others will always be respected by others.

13. Wealth and honor cannot be licentious, poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, and power cannot bend.

14. Old people, I am old, and people are old; young people, I am young, and people are young.

15. If there are no rules, there will be no square.

16. The most important thing for a filial son is to respect his relatives; the most important thing for a filial son is to respect his relatives. As the son and father of the emperor, he should be respected to the highest extent; to be nourished by the world, he should be nourished to the highest level.

17. A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them. Having both parents and brothers without any reason is one kind of happiness; looking up to heaven and not being ashamed of others is the second kind of happiness; being able to educate the talented people from all over the world is the third kind of happiness.

18. 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.

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. Kind words are not as profound as the words of kindness, and good governance is not as good as good teaching to win over the people. Good governance will be feared by the people; good education will be loved by the people. Good governance wins people's wealth, and good education wins people's hearts.

21. What a person can do without learning is his good ability; what he knows without worrying about it is his good knowledge. Children all love their relatives, and their elders all respect their elders. Kissing relatives is benevolence; respecting elders is righteousness; without others, it reaches the world.

22. An adult is one who does not lose his innocent heart.

23. Form and color are also nature; only a saint can practice the form.

24. Born in sorrow and died in happiness.

25. People do not do anything, and then they can do something.

26. Nothing is better than the eyes. The eyes cannot hide the evil. If the chest is straight, the eyes will be clear; if the chest is irregular, the eyes will be dim. Listening to his words and looking at his eyes, he looks very thin.

27. There are noble and inferior bodies, big and small. Nothing can harm the great with the small, and nothing can harm the noble with the humble. Those who raise others are small people, and those who raise them big are adults.

28. People have a constant saying, they all say "the world is a country". The foundation of the world lies in the country, the foundation of the country lies in the home, and the foundation of the family lies in the body.

29. Those who abuse themselves cannot talk to them; those who abandon themselves cannot do anything with them.

30. To nourish the heart, don’t be good at having few desires.

31. He who rises when the cock crows and breeds for good is a disciple of Shun; If you want to know the difference between Shun and Zhi, there is no other way but between benefit and goodness.

32. 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.

33. A wife will insult herself, and then others will insult her; a family will destroy herself, and then others will destroy it; a country will destroy itself, and then others will destroy it.

34. If you are not ashamed, why should you be like a human being?

35. Those who practice without hesitation, get used to it without noticing, and follow it all their lives without knowing the way are the same.

36. The people are the most important, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important.

37. Quan, then know the severity; degree, then know the length.

38. The best way to deal with people’s problems is to be a teacher.

39. Kindness brings honor, while unkindness brings disgrace.

40. Loving others without being close to them is against their benevolence; treating others without treating them is against their wisdom; not being courteous to others is against their respect; those who fail to do what they do are all seeking others, and if they are upright, the world will return to them. Of.

41. If you ask, you will gain it; if you give it up, you will lose it; seeking is beneficial to gaining, and seeking is mine. There is a way to seek, and there is a destiny to obtain. (www.lz13.cn) This means that seeking is not beneficial to obtaining, and it is also seeking something outside.

42. When there is little help, relatives are nearby; when there is much help, the world will follow.

43. It is not benevolent to kill someone without sin, and it is not righteous to take something that does not exist.

44. If you respect the virtuous and enable the capable, and if the heroes are in power, then all the people in the world will be happy and willing to serve in your dynasty.

45. The sage uses his enlightenment to make others enlighten, but now he uses his faintness to make others enlighten.

46. If you are poor, you will be good for yourself; if you are ambitious, you will be good for the world.

47. Therefore, when Heaven is about to entrust a person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions. Therefore, if he is tempted to endure, he has Benefit from what it cannot do.

48. Those who have gained the right will get many help, but those who have lost the right will have little help. When there is little help, relatives will be there; when there is much help, the world will follow.

49. A gentleman does not complain about heaven or others.

50. Loving others without being close to them is against their benevolence; treating others without treating them is against their wisdom; being courteous but not responding to others is against their respect - those who fail to do something will always seek others, and their body will be upright in the world. Return.

51. He who seeks all fortune and misfortune by himself.

52. The organ of the heart is thinking. If you think, you can get it. If you don’t think, you can’t get it.

53. People can change their words easily, so there is no need to blame the ears.

54. People can’t be shameless. It’s shameless to be shameless.

55. I know my words and I am good at cultivating my awe-inspiring spirit.