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Mencius Philosopher

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: China
  • Born: 371 BCE
  • Died: 289 BCE

Mencius was a Chinese philosopher who is the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.

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

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

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

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.