Mencius Quotes

Mencius — Chinese Philosopher

Mencius was a Chinese philosopher who is the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself... (wikipedia)

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.