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.
"Chinese name/Ancestral name (?):"//Ji (surname)/Ji (; Pinyin: J?)
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/align="right"/"Chinese surname/Clan name (?):"//Meng (surname)/Meng (Ch: ?; Py: Mèng)
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/align="right"/"Styled:"//Master Meng (Ch: Wiktionary:?/?Wiktionary:?/?; Py: Mèngz?)
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"Mencius" (; /zhu=??? ??/p=Mèng Z?/w=Meng4 Tzu3}}; most accepted dates: 372 – 289 BC; other possible dates: 385 – 303/302 BC) was a China/Chinese Chinese philosophy/philosopher who is the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous philosophers! More Mencius on Wikipedia.If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
Sincerity is the way of Heaven.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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