Mencius quotes

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.

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.

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

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

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.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.