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Ancestral name (姓): Ji (Chinese: 姬; Pinyin: Jī) Clan name (氏): Meng (Ch: 孟; Py: Mèng) Given name (名): Ke (Ch: 軻; Py: Kē) Courtesy name (字): Unknown Posthumous name (謚): Master Meng the Second Sage (Ch: 亞聖孟子; Py: Yàshèng Mèngzǐ) Styled: Master Meng (Ch: 孟子; Py: Mèngzǐ) Confucianism History Confucius Mencius Xunzi Spring and Autumn Period State of Lu Neo-Confucianism New Confucianism Fundamental concepts Ren Yi Li Xiao Zhong Confucianism by...
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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Sincerity is the way to heaven.

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The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

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

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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

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People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

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There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

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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.

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Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.

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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... →

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

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

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