Mencius Quotations

Mencius Quotations:

1. [Mengzi Quotations] The benevolent is invincible. [Translation] Rende's people are invincible in the world.

2. [Mengzi Quotations] Five acres of house, the tree is mulberry, fifty can be clothes. Chickens and pheasants are licking the animals, and if they are not lost, seventy can eat meat. A hundred acres of land, do not take the time, a hundred homes can be no hunger. I would like to teach you in order to apply for filial piety. [例句] Every home that gives him five acres of land, surrounded by mulberry trees, then people over the age of 50 can wear silk. Livestock such as chickens and pigs have the power to breed and breed. Then, people over the age of 70 have meat to eat. The family gave him a hundred acres of land and did not hinder his production. The family of eight people could eat enough. Run schools at all levels, and repeatedly use the principle of filial piety and respect for your elder brothers to enlighten them. Then, the old man who has to be whitened will have someone to do it, and he will not carry his head and carry things on the road.

3. [Mengzi Quotations] Yi Qitian domain, thin taxation, the people can make rich. [translation] Doing a good job of farming and reducing taxes can make the people rich.

4. [Meng Zi Quotations] Junren, Mo is not benevolent; Junyi, Mo is not righteous; Junzheng, Mo is not right. [translation] The monarch, no one is not benevolent; monarchism, no one is unjust; the monarch is right, no one is not right.

5. [Mengzi Quotations] The music is happy, the people are happy; the people who worry about the people, the people worry about their worries. [Translation] With the happiness of the people as their own happy people, the people will also be happy with the happiness of the monarch; with the sorrow of the people as their own sorrowers, the people will also take the sorrow of the monarch as their own sorrow.

6. [Mengzi Quotations] The people are expensive, the society is second, and the king is light. [Translation] The most important thing for the people is to represent the god of the valley of the country. The monarch is the lightest.

7. [Mengzi Quotations] The city of Sanli, the king of the seven miles, the ring is not winning. When the husband and the ring attack, there will be those who are tempted by the heavens, but the incompetent ones are inferior to the heavens. [translation] Sanli's inner city, the outer city of the seven miles, surrounded by attacking it, must have the opportunity of the day, but this can not win, this is a favorable terrain is not as favorable as the terrain.

8. [Mengzi Quotations] The city is not high, the pool is not deep, the military is not not strong, and the millet is not much, but it is not as good as people. [Translation] The city wall is not not high, the moat is not deep, the armor of the armor is not not sharp, the food is not much, and the city is abandoned. This is the favorable unity of the people.

9. [Mengzi Quotations] Mencius: Water is not divided into things, no matter what is up and down? The goodness of human nature is also the result of the water. There is nothing wrong with people, and there is no water. If you are in the water, you can make a leap, and if you do, you can do it in the mountains. Is it the nature of drowning? The potential is also true! People can be bad, and their nature is also. [translation] Mencius said: "Water is not in the east-west direction, is it not divided up and down? The kindness of human nature is like the flow of water to the lower. People are not unfriendly, just like water does not go to the lower part. The flow is the same. Now on the water, beat it hard to make it jump, it can be higher than the forehead of the person; the interception makes it sway, can stop it on the mountain. How is this watery? This is really external force! It can make him do something bad, this behavior that violates his kind nature is the same as the act of letting water violate its low flow."

10. [Mengzi Quotations] The thief is called the "thief", and the thief is called "the wreck." The person who is a thief is called "a husband." I heard that I was a monk and I didn’t smell it. [Translation] The person who destroys love is called "thief", and the person who destroys morality is called "disability." Such a person, we call him "the husband". I only heard that Zhou Wuwang killed the singer, and he had never heard of him as a prince.

11. [Mengzi Quotations] Right, then know the weight; degree, then know the length. [translation] It is known to be a name, only to know how long it is.

12. [Mengzi Quotations] People have something to do, and then they can do something. [translation] If people want something, they can do something.

13. [Mengzi Quotations] Although there are things that are easy to live in the world, one day is violent, and ten days are cold, there is no one who can live. [例句] Even if there is a plant that is the easiest to grow, it will be exposed to it for a day and frozen for ten days.

14. [Mengzi Quotations] Its advancement, its speed. [Translation] People who advance too hard will be quick to retreat.

15. [Mengzi Quotations] The official of the heart thinks, the thought is obtained, and the thought is not. [例句] The organ of this heart is thinking, thinking can be obtained, and it cannot be obtained without thinking.

16. [Mengzi Quotations] The weather is not as good as the land, and the land is not as good as the people. [Translation] The fortune given by Heaven is not as good as the geographical advantage, and the geographical advantage is less than the unity and cooperation of people.

17. [Meng Zi Quotations] The monarch is good, the world is invincible. [translation] If a monarch of a country loves virtue, there will be no rivals in the whole world.

18. [Mengzi Quotations] Provincial punishment, thin taxation, deep cultivation and easy to squat. [Translation] The penalty is reduced, the tax is reduced, and the people can dig deeper and get rid of the grass.

19. [Meng Zi Quotations] Ren Zerong, not benevolent. [translation] If the princes and daughters are practicing benevolent government, they will have glory; if they do not be willing, they will suffer humiliation.

20. [Mengzi Quotations] The sage is in power and the capable person is in office. [translation] The person who has virtue is living in a fairly bureaucratic position, and the talented person is in a certain position.

21. [Mengzi Quotations] Honor is enabled, Junjie is in place. [Translation] Respect for ethical people, use competent people, outstanding people have official positions.

22. [Mengzi Quotations] No rules, no squares. [translation] Without the compass and the ruler, the square and the circle cannot be drawn correctly.

23. [Mengzi Quotations] There are perseverance in those who have constant birth, and there is no perseverance in those who have no permanent birth. There is no perseverance, and it is all right. [Translation] Talents with certain industrial income have certain moral concepts and codes of conduct. Those without certain industrial income will not have certain moral concepts and codes of conduct. If there is no certain morality and code of conduct, it will be mischievous, illegal and chaotic, and everything will be done.

24. [Mengzi Quotations] Fighting the land to fight, killing the wilderness; fighting for the city to fight, killing the city, this so-called land and eating human flesh, sin can not die. [translation] Fighting for the land, killing people everywhere; fighting for the city, killing people full of city, this is to lead the land to eat human flesh, the death penalty is not enough to redeem their sins.

25. [Mengzi Quotations] If the prince of the prince is like a hand and foot, then the prince is like a heart; if the prince is like a dog, then the prince is like a national; if the prince is like a mustard, then the prince is like a priest. . [translation] The monarch regards the minister as his own hand and foot, and the minister will regard the monarch as the heart; the monarch will regard the minister as a cow and a horse, and the minister will regard the monarch as the ordinary person on the road; the monarch sees the minister as dirt or weeds. The minister will regard the monarch as an enemy.

26. [Mengzi Quotations] Hometown: The domain people do not take the border of the border, the solid country does not take the risk of the mountain stream, and the world does not benefit from the military. The winners are more helpful, and the losers are helpless. Widowed help, relatives; more help, the world is smooth. With the direction of the world, attacking the side of the relatives, so the gentleman does not fight, the battle will win. [Translation] Therefore, the people can not be restricted by blocking the border line. The country can not be saved by the obstacles of the mountains and rivers. Yangwei can not be done by sharp weapons. People with morality receive more help, and those who lose morality receive less help. When the number of helpers is extremely low, even relatives will be reneged; when the number of helpers is extremely high, all the people in the world will obey. With the power of obedience all over the world to attack people who will be reneged with relatives, so no war, then war will win, this is no doubt.

27. [Mengzi Quotations] Killing a sinless non-ren is also a non-righteousness. [例句] It is not right to kill a person who is not guilty; it is not his own, but it is unjust.

28. [Mengzi Quotations] Born in sorrow and died in peace. [例句] Sorrow is enough to make people survive, and happiness is enough to make people die.

29. [Mengzi Quotations] Only the benevolent should be at a high position. In the high position, it is the evil in the public. [translation] Only the morally noble benevolent should be in a dominant position. If the inferior person with low morality is in a dominant position, his sin will be transmitted to the people.

30. [Mengzi Quotations] The emperor is not benevolent, not the four seas; the princes are not benevolent, do not protect the community; the Qing doctor is not benevolent, does not protect the ancestral temple; the gentry are not benevolent, do not protect the four bodies.

31. [Mengzi Quotations] Fish, I also want to do it, the bear's paw is also what I want; the two can't get both, and the fish and the bears are also taken. Life is also what I want, and righteousness is what I want; the two cannot be both, and those who give birth and take justice. [translation] The fish is what I want, the bear's paw is also what I want, these two things can't be obtained, the fish is discarded and the bear's paw is selected. Life is also what I want, justice is what I want, these two things can't be obtained, and I abandon life and choose justice.

32. [Meng Zi Quotations] Old and old, and old people; young and young, and young people. [Translation] Respect my elders, and thus promote to the elders who respect others; love their younger generation, and thus promote to the younger generation who cares for others.

Introduction to Mencius:

Mencius, famous, and Zizi, Lu Guozou in the middle of the Warring States Period, not far from Confucius's hometown Qufu. He is a famous thinker, politician, educator, successor of Confucius, and an important representative of Confucianism. According to legend, Mencius is a descendant of Meng Sunshi, a nobleman of the Lu nationality. He died in his childhood, his family was poor, and he was a student of Zi Si. After the study, he lobbied the princes as a priest, attempting to promote his own political ideas, and went to Liang Guo, Qi Guo, Song Guo, Teng Guo, and Lu Guo. At that time, several major powers were committed to enriching the country and fighting for unity through violent means. He inherited Confucius's "benevolence" thought and developed it into a "benevolence" thought, known as "Asian Holy." The birth of Mencius was about a hundred years from the death of Confucius. There are very few stories about his life experience. The biography of Han Shi contains the story of his mother’s “broken weaving”. The story of “The Women’s Biography” contains stories of his mother’s “three moves” and “going to Qi”. He has a lot of education from his mother. According to "Liu Bi Chuan" and Zhao Yu's "Meng Zi's inscription", Mencius was taught by Confucius' grandson. But from the age of calculation, it seems not credible.

"Historical Records. Mencius's Biography of the Qing Dynasty" said that he was "received by the people of the industry", which is possible. Whether it is subject to the child's thinking or the child's thoughts, Mencius's doctrine is influenced by Confucius. Therefore, Xunzi listed Zi Si and Mencius as a faction. This is what the later generations called Confucianism. Like Confucius, Mencius also led students to travel to Wei, Qi, Song, Lu, Teng, Xue and other countries, and once served as the guest of Qi Xuanwang. Because his political proposition is not reused as well as Confucius, he returned to his hometown to give lectures and book with the students Wan Zhang and others. "Preface "Poetry" and "Book", the meaning of Zhong Ni, "The Mencius" seven articles. "The seven articles of Mencius that we have seen today are divided into upper and lower parts, about 35,000 words, and a total of two hundred and sixty chapters. However, "Han Shu. Yi Wen Zhi" is written "Meng Zi Shi Yi", which is four more than the existing "Meng Zi". When Zhao Wei made a note for "Meng Zi", he identified 11 articles and thought that seven articles were true, and four articles other than seven articles were false articles. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, these articles have been lost.

In the "Inscriptions on Mencius", Zhao Wei compares "Meng Zi" with "The Analects of Confucius" and thinks that "Meng Zi" is "pretending to be holy". Therefore, although "Han Shu. Literature and Art" only puts "Mencius" in the children's books, it is regarded as a child book, but in fact, in the minds of the Han Dynasty people, it has been regarded as a "transmission" book that assists the "Book of Scriptures". The Emperor of the Han Dynasty put "Dr. Analects", "Xiao Jing", "Mencius" and "Erya" as doctors. After the Five Dynasties, the later monk Meng Meng ordered the eleventh scriptures to be engraved, including the Mencius, which may be the beginning of the inclusion of Mencius in the Book of Scriptures. Later, Song Taizong engraved the eleventh. When he went to Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi edited the "Four Books" into "Meng Zi" and officially mentioned "Mencius" to a very high status. After Yuan and Ming, it became the content of the imperial examinations. It is also a must-read for readers.