Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.
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Mencius
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About Mencius
Mencius, born Meng Ke (孟軻), was a Chinese Confucian philosopher, often described as the Second Sage (亞聖) to reflect his traditional esteem relative to Confucius himself. He was part of Confucius's fourth generation of disciples, inheriting his ideology and developing it further. Living during the Warring States period, he is said to have spent much of his life travelling around the states offering counsel to different rulers. Conversations with these rulers form the basis of the Mencius, which …
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.