Chapter
1 1 | Chapter 1~1. Mencius went to see king Hûi of
2 1 | to profit my kingdom?'~3. Mencius replied, 'Why must your
3 1 | that word -- "profit?".~1. Mencius, another day, saw King Hûi
4 1 | pleasure in these things?'~2. Mencius replied, 'Being wise and
5 1 | increase. How is this?'~2. Mencius replied, 'Your majesty is
6 1 | Majesty knows this,' replied Mencius, 'you need not hope that
7 1 | receive your instructions.'~2. Mencius replied, 'Is there any difference
8 1 | difference,' was the reply.~4. Mencius then said, 'In your kitchen
9 1 | to accomplish this?'~2. Mencius replied, 'With a territory
10 2 | Chapter 2~1. Mencius went to see the king Hsiang
11 2 | î, and Wan of Tsin?'~2. Mencius replied, 'There were none
12 2 | to attain to royal sway?' Mencius answered, 'The love and
13 2 | and protect the people?' Mencius said, 'Yes.' 'How do you
14 2 | replied, 'It did,' and then Mencius said, 'The heart seen in
15 2 | changed it for a sheep.'~7. Mencius pursued, 'Let not your Majesty
16 2 | in their saying so,' said Mencius. 'Your conduct was an artifice
17 2 | to the royal sway?'~10. Mencius replied, 'Suppose a man
18 2 | was the answer, on which Mencius proceeded, 'Now here is
19 2 | to do it, be represented? Mencius replied,'In such a thing
20 2 | what I greatly desire.'~16. Mencius said, 'May I hear from you
21 2 | laughed and did not speak. Mencius resumed, 'Are you led to
22 2 | not on account of them.' Mencius added, 'Then, what your
23 2 | you the proof of that?' Mencius said, 'If the people of
24 2 | instructions into effect.'~20. Mencius replied, 'They are only
25 3 | 3~1. Chwang Pâ'o, seeing Mencius, said to him, 'I had an
26 3 | about that love of music?' Mencius replied, 'If the king's
27 3 | government!'~2. Another day, Mencius, having an interview with
28 3 | of the present age.'~3. Mencius said, 'If your Majesty's
29 3 | you the proof of that?' Mencius asked, 'Which is the more
30 3 | enjoy it with many.'~5. Mencius proceeded, 'Your servant
31 3 | contained seventy square lî?' Mencius replied, 'It is so in the
32 3 | king. 'The people,' said Mencius, 'still looked on it as
33 3 | neighbouring kingdoms?' Mencius replied, 'There is. But
34 3 | î had an interview with Mencius in the Snow palace, and
35 3 | pleasure in these things?' Mencius replied, 'They do; and if
36 3 | movement for that object?'~2. Mencius replied, 'The Hall of Distinction
37 3 | said, 'O excellent words!' Mencius said, 'Since your Majesty
38 3 | attaining the royal sway?'~1. Mencius said to the king Hsüan of
39 3 | should cast him off.'~2. Mencius proceeded, 'Suppose that
40 3 | said, 'Dismiss him.'~3. Mencius again said, 'If within the
41 4 | Chapter 4~1. Mencius, having an interview with
42 4 | that king Wû smote Châu?' Mencius replied, 'It is so in the
43 4 | sovereign to death?'~3. Mencius said, 'He who outrages the
44 4 | death, in his case.'~1. Mencius, having an interview with
45 4 | taking possession of it?'~3. Mencius replied, 'If the people
46 4 | The king Hsüan said to Mencius, 'The princes have formed
47 4 | prepare myself for them?' Mencius replied, 'I have heard of
48 4 | when the duke Mû asked Mencius, saying,'Of my officers
49 4 | the case to be met?'~2. Mencius replied, 'In calamitous
50 4 | duke Wan of T'ang asked Mencius, saying, 'T'ang is a small
51 4 | Or shall I serve Chû?'~2. Mencius replied, 'This plan which
52 4 | duke Wan of T'ang asked Mencius, saying, 'The people of
53 4 | to take in the case?'~2. Mencius replied, 'Formerly, when
54 4 | duke Wan of T'ang asked Mencius, saying, 'T'ang is a small
55 4 | take that we may do so?' Mencius replied, 'Formerly, when
56 4 | After this, Yo-chang saw Mencius, and said to him, 'I told
57 4 | according to his purpose.' Mencius said, 'A man's advancement
58 5 | 1. Kung-sun Ch'âu asked Mencius, saying, 'Master, if you
59 5 | Kwan Chung and Yen?'~2. Mencius said, 'You are indeed a
60 5 | him?"~4. 'Thus,' concluded Mencius, 'Tsang Hsî would not play
61 5 | to do what they did?'~6. Mencius answered, 'To raise Ch'î
62 5 | object for imitation?'~8. Mencius said, 'How can king Wan
63 5 | 1. Kung-sun Ch'âu asked Mencius, saying, 'Master, if you
64 5 | mind be perturbed or not?' Mencius replied, 'No. At forty,
65 5 | The mere attainment,' said Mencius, 'is not difficult. The
66 5 | philosopher Kâo does the same?' Mencius answered,'Kâo says, -- "
67 5 | to the passion-nature?"' Mencius replied, 'When it is the
68 5 | you, Master, surpass Kâo.' Mencius told him, 'I understand
69 5 | whatever words you hear?' Mencius replied, 'When words are
70 5 | attained to be a Sage?'~19. Mencius said, 'Oh! what words are
71 5 | pleased to rank yourself?'~21. Mencius replied, 'Let us drop speaking
72 5 | different from mine,' said Mencius. 'Not to serve a prince
73 5 | placed in the same rank?' Mencius replied, 'No. Since there
74 5 | he differed from them.' Mencius replied, 'Tsâi Wo, Tsze-kung,
75 6 | Chapter 6~1. Mencius said, 'He who, using force,
76 6 | illustration of this.'~1. Mencius said, 'Benevolence brings
77 6 | any longer to live."'~1. Mencius said, 'If a ruler give honour
78 6 | to the royal dignity.'~1. Mencius said, 'All men have a mind
79 6 | serve his parents with.'~1. Mencius said, 'Is the arrow-maker
80 6 | failure in himself.'~1. Mencius said, 'When any one told
81 6 | to practise virtue.'~1. Mencius said, 'Po-î would not serve
82 6 | his purity to go away.'~3. Mencius said, 'Po-î was narrow-minded,
83 7 | Chapter 7~1. Mencius said, 'Opportunities of
84 7 | he must overcome.'~1. As Mencius was about to go to court
85 7 | opportunity of seeing you then.' Mencius replied, 'Unfortunately,
86 7 | improper?' 'Yesterday,' said Mencius, 'I was unwell; to-day,
87 7 | several men to look for Mencius on the way, and say to him, '
88 7 | the court.'~4. On this, Mencius felt himself compelled to
89 7 | you show respect to him.' Mencius replied, 'Oh! what words
90 7 | that rule of propriety.'~6. Mencius answered him, 'How can you
91 7 | Chung!'~1. Ch'an Tsin asked Mencius, saying, 'Formerly, when
92 7 | these alternatives.'~2. Mencius said, 'I did right in all
93 7 | taken with a bribe?'~1. Mencius having gone to P'ing-lû,
94 7 | do so,' was the reply.~2. Mencius said, 'Well then, you, Sir,
95 7 | to act.'~3. 'Here,' said Mencius, 'is a man who receives
96 7 | guilty.'~4. Another day, Mencius had an audience of the king,
97 7 | I am the guilty one.'~1. Mencius said to Ch'î Wâ, 'There
98 7 | told him these remarks.~5. Mencius said, 'I have heard that
99 7 | Kung-sun Ch'âu. said to Mencius, 'The position of a high
100 7 | matters of your mission?' Mencius replied, 'There were the
101 8 | Chapter 8~1. Mencius went from Ch'î to Lû to
102 8 | to me, was too good.'~2. Mencius replied, 'Anciently, there
103 8 | on his own impulse, asked Mencius, saying, 'May Yen be smitten?'
104 8 | saying, 'May Yen be smitten?' Mencius replied, 'It may. Tsze-k'
105 8 | smote Yen. Some one asked Mencius, saying, 'Is it really the
106 8 | ashamed when I think of Mencius.'~2. Ch'an Chiâ said to
107 8 | so! I beg to go and see Mencius, and relieve your Majesty
108 8 | an Chiâ accordingly saw Mencius, and asked him, saying, '
109 8 | appoint him to that office?' Mencius said, 'He did not know.' '
110 8 | duke of Châu,' answered Mencius, 'was the younger brother.
111 8 | apologize for them likewise.'~1. Mencius gave up his office, and
112 8 | opportunity of seeing you.' Mencius replied, 'I dare not request
113 8 | officer Shih, 'I wish to give Mencius a house, somewhere in the
114 8 | who reported his words to Mencius.~5. Mencius said, 'Yes;
115 8 | his words to Mencius.~5. Mencius said, 'Yes; but how should
116 8 | from this mean fellow."'~1. Mencius, having taken his leave
117 8 | and began to speak to him. Mencius gave him no answer, but
118 8 | again presume to see you.' Mencius replied, 'Sit down, and
119 8 | it I who cut you?~1. When Mencius had left Ch'î, Yin Shih
120 8 | The disciple Kâo informed Mencius of these remarks.~3. Mencius
121 8 | Mencius of these remarks.~3. Mencius said, 'How should Yin Shih
122 8 | indeed a small man.'~1. When Mencius left Ch'î, Ch'ung Yü questioned
123 8 | grudge against men."'~2. Mencius said, 'That was one time,
124 8 | than dissatisfied?'~1. When Mencius left Ch'î, he dwelt in Hsiû.
125 8 | without receiving salary?'~2. Mencius replied, 'No; when I first
126 9 | way of Sung, and visited Mencius.~2. Mencius discoursed to
127 9 | and visited Mencius.~2. Mencius discoursed to him how the
128 9 | from Ch'û, he again visited Mencius. Mencius said to him, 'Prince,
129 9 | he again visited Mencius. Mencius said to him, 'Prince, do
130 9 | said to Yen Yû, 'Formerly, Mencius spoke with me in Sung, and
131 9 | you to ask the advice of Mencius, and then to proceed to
132 9 | proceeded to Tsâu, and consulted Mencius. Mencius said, 'Is this
133 9 | and consulted Mencius. Mencius said, 'Is this not good?
134 9 | on; do you again consult Mencius for me.' On this, Zan Yû
135 9 | again to Tsâu, and consulted Mencius. Mencius said, 'It is so,
136 9 | and consulted Mencius. Mencius said, 'It is so, but he
137 9 | duke Wan of T'ang asked Mencius about the proper way of
138 9 | governing a kingdom.~2. Mencius said, 'The business of the
139 9 | sent Pî Chan to consult Mencius about the nine-squares system
140 9 | system of dividing the land. Mencius said to him, 'Since your
141 10| Having an interview with Mencius, he related to him with
142 10| real worthy prince?'~4. Mencius said,'I suppose that Hsü
143 10| exchange for grain.'~5. Mencius then said, 'The getting
144 10| business of husbandry.'~6. Mencius resumed, 'Then, is it the
145 10| were of the same size.'~18. Mencius replied, 'It is the nature
146 10| through Hsü Pî, to see Mencius. Mencius said, 'I indeed
147 10| Hsü Pî, to see Mencius. Mencius said, 'I indeed wish to
148 10| Chih again sought to see Mencius. Mencius said, 'To-day I
149 10| again sought to see Mencius. Mencius said, 'To-day I am able
150 10| Hsü reported this reply to Mencius, who said, 'Now, does Î
151 10| disciple Hsü informed Î of what Mencius had said. Î was thoughtful
152 11| 11~1. Ch'an Tâi said to Mencius, 'In not going to wait upon
153 11| which might be done.'~2. Mencius said, 'Formerly, the duke
154 11| make others straight.'~2. Mencius said, 'How can such men
155 11| man.'~1. Châu Hsiâo asked Mencius, saying, 'Did superior men
156 11| of old time take office?' Mencius replied, 'They did. The
157 11| a too great urgency?'~3. Mencius answered, 'The loss of his
158 11| difficulty about taking it?' Mencius answered, 'When a son is
159 11| holes.'~1. P'ang Kang asked Mencius, saying, 'Is it not an extravagant
160 11| by several hundred men?' Mencius replied, 'If there be not
161 11| notwithstanding is improper.'~3. Mencius answered, 'If you do not
162 11| have you to do,' returned Mencius, 'with his purpose? He is
163 11| remunerate his intention.'~5. Mencius said, 'There is a man here,
164 11| him?' 'No,' said Kang; and Mencius then concluded, 'That being
165 11| done.'~1. Wan Chang asked Mencius, saying, 'Sung is a small
166 11| case is to be done?'~2. Mencius replied, 'When T'ang dwelt
167 12| Chapter 12~1. Mencius said to Tâi Pû-shang, 'I
168 12| teach him,' said Pû-shang. Mencius went on, 'If but one man
169 12| 1. Kung-sun Châu asked Mencius, saying, 'What is the point
170 12| going to see the princes?' Mencius replied, 'Among the ancients,
171 12| 1. Tâi Ying-chih said to Mencius, 'I am not able at present
172 12| think of such a course?'~2. Mencius said, 'Here is a man, who
173 12| disciple Kung-tû said to Mencius, 'Master, the people beyond
174 12| to ask whether it be so.' Mencius replied, 'Indeed, I am not
175 12| 1. K'wang Chang said to Mencius, 'Is not Ch'an Chung a man
176 12| his sight and hearing.'~2. Mencius replied, 'Among the scholars
177 12| sell or exchange them.'~5. Mencius rejoined, 'Chung belongs
178 13| Chapter 13~1. Mencius said, 'The power of vision
179 13| the thief with him."'~1. Mencius said, 'The compass and square
180 13| sovereign of Hsiâ."' ~1. Mencius said, 'It was by benevolence
181 13| strong to drink wine!~1. Mencius said, 'If a man love others,
182 13| obtain much happiness."' ~Mencius said, 'People have this
183 13| the person of its Head.'~Mencius said, 'The administration
184 13| like the rush of water.'~1. Mencius said, 'When right government
185 13| dipping it (in water)?"' ~1. Mencius said, 'How is it possible
186 13| any longer to live."'~1. Mencius said, 'Chieh and Châu's
187 13| with it go to ruin."' ~1. Mencius said, 'With those who do
188 14| Chapter 14~Mencius said, 'The path of duty
189 14| enjoy tranquillity.'~1. Mencius said, 'When those occupying
190 14| able to move others.'~1. Mencius said, 'Po-Î, that he might
191 14| laws to the kingdom.'~1. Mencius said, 'Ch'iû acted as chief
192 14| conceal his character?'~Mencius said, 'The respectful do
193 14| or receiving anything?' Mencius replied, 'It is the rule.'
194 14| rescue her with his hand?' Mencius said, 'He who would not
195 14| will not rescue it!'~3. Mencius answered, 'A drowning kingdom
196 14| kingdom with my hand?'~2. Mencius replied, 'The circumstances
197 14| nothing more inauspicious.'~1. Mencius said, 'Of services, which
198 14| accepted as flial piety.'~Mencius said, 'It is not enough
199 14| will be firmly settled.'~Mencius said, 'There are cases of
200 14| Ch'î.~2. He came to see Mencius, who said to him, 'Are you
201 14| have you been here?' asked Mencius. 'I came yesterday.' 'Yesterday!
202 14| said, 'I have done wrong.'~Mencius, addressing the disciple
203 14| eating and drinking.'~1. Mencius said, 'There are three things
204 14| he had informed them.'~1. Mencius said, 'The richest fruit
205 15| Chapter 15~1. Mencius said, 'Shun was born in
206 15| in his own carriage.~2. Mencius said, 'It was kind, but
207 15| sufficient for his work.'~1. Mencius said to the king Hsüan of
208 15| thus go into mourning?'~3. Mencius replied,'The admonitions
209 15| a robber and an enemy?'~Mencius said, 'Acts of propriety
210 15| great man does not do.'~Mencius said, 'Those who keep the
211 15| will not admit an inch.'~Mencius said, 'Men must be decided
212 15| what they ought to do.'~Mencius said, 'What future misery
213 15| is not good in others!'~Mencius said,'The great man does
214 15| and does what is right.'~Mencius said, 'The superior man
215 15| in water to praise?'~2. Mencius replied, 'There is a spring
216 15| reputation beyond his merits.'~1. Mencius said, 'That whereby man
217 15| benevolence and righteousness.'~1. Mencius said, 'Yü hated the pleasant
218 15| I ventured to make."'~1. Mencius said, 'The influence of
219 16| Chapter 16~Mencius said, 'When it appears proper
220 16| himself, and so he slew him. Mencius said, 'In this case Î also
221 16| of them, and returned.~1. Mencius said, 'If the lady Hsî had
222 16| may sacrifice to God.'~1. Mencius said, 'All who speak about
223 16| place and spoke with him.~2. Mencius did not speak with him,
224 16| spoken with me. There is only Mencius who does not speak to me,
225 16| thereby slighting me.'~3. Mencius having heard of this remark,
226 16| is not this strange?'~1. Mencius said, 'That whereby the
227 16| Confucius praised him.~3. Mencius said, 'Yü, Chî, and Yen
228 16| to ask why you do so.'~2. Mencius replied, 'There are five
229 16| guard the State with?'~3. Mencius said, 'The philosophers
230 17| Chapter 17~1. Wan Chang asked Mencius, saying, 'When Shun went
231 17| did he cry out and weep?' Mencius replied, 'He was dissatisfied,
232 17| murmuring against his parents?' Mencius answered, 'Ch'ang Hsî asked
233 17| them.'~1. Wan Chang asked Mencius, saying, 'It is said in
234 17| informing his parents?' Mencius replied, 'If he had informed
235 17| informing Shun's parents?' Mencius said, 'The Tî also knew
236 17| s wishing to kill him.' Mencius answered, 'How could he
237 17| rejoice hypocritically?' Mencius replied, 'No. Formerly,
238 17| that he only banished him?' Mencius said, 'He raised him to
239 17| raised him to be a prince.' Mencius replied, 'A benevolent man
240 17| a banishing of Hsiang?' Mencius replied, 'Hsiang could do
241 17| Hsien-ch'iû Mang asked Mencius, saying, 'There is the saying, "
242 17| said really took place.' Mencius replied, 'No. These are
243 17| not one of his ministers.' Mencius answered, 'That ode is not
244 18| gave the throne to Shun?' Mencius said, 'No. The sovereign
245 18| specific injunctions?'~4. Mencius replied, 'No. Heaven does
246 18| affairs:" -- how was this?' Mencius's answer was, 'The sovereign
247 18| the people accepted him.' Mencius replied, 'He caused him
248 18| hear."'~1. Wan Chang asked Mencius, saying, 'People say, "When
249 18| to his son." Was it so?' Mencius replied, 'No; it was not
250 18| cases."'~1. Wan Chang asked Mencius, saying, 'People say that
251 18| cookery. Was it so?'~2. Mencius replied, 'No, it was not
252 18| Po."'~1. Wan Chang asked Mencius, saying, 'Some say that
253 18| Ch'î Hwan; -- was it so?' Mencius replied, 'No; it was not
254 18| Confucius?'~1. Wan Chang asked Mencius, 'Some say that Pâi-lî Hsî
255 18| was this the case?' Mencius said, 'No; it was not so.
256 19| Chapter 19~1. Mencius said, 'Po-î would not allow
257 19| this was Confucius.'~5. Mencius said,'Po-î among the sages
258 19| strength.'~1. Pêi-kung Î asked Mencius, saying, 'What was the arrangement
259 19| by the House of Châu?'~2. Mencius replied, 'The particulars
260 19| differences.'~1. Wan Chang asked Mencius, saying, 'I venture to ask
261 19| principles of friendship.' Mencius replied, 'Friendship should
262 19| same.'~1. Wan Chang asked Mencius, saying, 'I venture to ask
263 19| presents of friendship?' Mencius replied, 'The feeling of
264 19| not this a proper course?' Mencius said, 'When the donor offers
265 19| acquired by robbery be proper?' Mencius replied, 'It would not be
266 19| ask how you explain this.' Mencius answered, 'Do you think
267 19| It was with that view,' Mencius replied, and Chang rejoined, '
268 19| for the captured game?' Mencius said, 'Confucius first rectified
269 20| Chapter 20~1. Mencius said, 'Office is not sought
270 20| support from a prince?' Mencius replied, 'He does not presume
271 20| He accepts it,' answered Mencius. 'On what principle of righteousness
272 20| be constantly repeated.' Mencius answered, 'There was the
273 20| do so in the proper way?' Mencius answered, 'At first, the
274 20| going to see the princes?' Mencius replied, 'A scholar residing
275 20| presence, refuses to go?' Mencius replied, 'It is right to
276 20| prince.'~3. 'And,' added Mencius, 'on what account is it
277 20| extensive information,' said Mencius, 'such a person is a teacher,
278 20| forester should be summoned?' Mencius replied, 'With a skin cap.
279 20| did Confucius do wrong?' Mencius replied, 'Confucius was
280 20| business of his office.'~1. Mencius said to Wan Chang, 'The
281 20| office of high ministers. Mencius said, 'Which high ministers
282 20| relatives of the prince.' Mencius answered, 'If the prince
283 20| changed countenance.~3. Mencius said, 'Let not your Majesty
284 20| surname from the prince. Mencius said, 'When the prince has
285 21| from the ch'î-willow.'~2. Mencius replied, 'Can you, leaving
286 21| to the east and west.'~2. Mencius replied, 'Water indeed will
287 21| what we call nature!'~2. Mencius asked him, 'Do you say that
288 21| Yes, I do,' was the reply. Mencius added, 'Is the whiteness
289 21| 3. 'Very well,' pursued Mencius. 'Is the nature of a dog
290 21| external and not internal.'~2. Mencius asked him, 'What is the
291 21| that it is external.'~3. Mencius said, 'There is no difference
292 21| righteousness is external.'~5. Mencius answered him, 'Our enjoyment
293 21| told the conversation to Mencius. Mencius said, 'You should
294 21| conversation to Mencius. Mencius said, 'You should ask him, "
295 21| are all those wrong?'~5. Mencius said, 'From the feelings
296 21| this admirable virtue.'~1. Mencius said, 'In good years the
297 21| agreeable to my mouth.'~1. Mencius said, 'The trees of the
298 22| Chapter 22~1. Mencius said, 'It is not to be wondered
299 22| is not equal? Not so.'~1. Mencius said, 'I like fish, and
300 22| nature of one's mind."'~1. Mencius said, 'Benevolence is man'
301 22| seek for the lost mind.'~1. Mencius said, 'Here is a man whose
302 22| importance of things."'~Mencius said, 'Anybody who wishes
303 22| reflection is extreme.'~1. Mencius said, 'There is no part
304 22| little men; -- how is this?' Mencius replied, 'Those who follow
305 22| little; -- how is this?' Mencius answered, 'The senses of
306 22| makes the great man.'~1. Mencius said, 'There is a nobility
307 22| embroidered garments of men.'~1. Mencius said, 'Benevolence subdues
308 23| to Tsâu, and told them to Mencius. Mencius said, 'What difficulty
309 23| and told them to Mencius. Mencius said, 'What difficulty is
310 23| 1. Chiâo of Tsâo asked Mencius, saying, 'It is said, "All
311 23| and Shuns;" -- is it so?' Mencius replied, It is.'~2. Chiâo
312 23| realize that saying?'~3. Mencius answered him, 'What has
313 23| instruction at your gate.'~7. Mencius replied, 'The way of truth
314 23| the ode of a little man."' Mencius asked, 'Why did he say so?' '
315 23| expresses,' was the reply.~2. Mencius answered, 'How stupid was
316 23| expressed in the K'âi Fang?'~4. Mencius replied, 'The parent's fault
317 23| being about to go to Ch'û, Mencius met him in Shih-ch'iû.~2. '
318 23| where are you going?' asked Mencius.~3. K'ang replied, 'I have
319 23| succeed with one of them.'~4. Mencius said, 'I will not venture
320 23| to them.' 'Master,' said Mencius, 'your aim is great, but
321 23| word "profit."'~1. When Mencius was residing in Tsâu, the
322 23| present of silks, which Mencius received, not going to acknowledge
323 23| is only the minister?'~4. Mencius replied, 'No. It is said
324 23| some one asked him what Mencius meant, he said, 'The younger
325 23| way of the benevolent?'~2. Mencius replied, 'There was Po'î; --
326 23| advantage to a kingdom!'~4. Mencius said, 'The prince of Yü
327 23| I should know them.'~6. Mencius answered, 'When Confucius
328 24| Chapter 24~1. Mencius said, 'The five chiefs of
329 24| commander of his army.~2. Mencius said, 'To employ an uninstructed
330 24| do not understand.'~5. Mencius said, 'I will lay the case
331 24| mind to benevolence.'~1. Mencius said, 'Those who now-a-days
332 24| do you think of it?'~2. Mencius said, 'Your way would be
333 24| not be enough to use.'~4. Mencius went on, 'In Mo all the
334 24| superior to that of Yü.'~2. Mencius replied, 'You are wrong,
335 24| are wrong, my good Sir.'~Mencius said, 'If a scholar have
336 24| to the disciple Yo-chang, Mencius said, 'When I heard of it,
337 24| sufficient to avert death.'~1. Mencius said, 'Shun rose from among
338 25| Chapter 25~1. Mencius said, 'He who has exhausted
339 25| Heaven-ordained being.'~1. Mencius said, 'There is an appointment
340 25| correctly be so ascribed.'~1. Mencius said, 'When we get by our
341 25| are without ourselves.'~1. Mencius said, 'All things are already
342 25| have in common with them?'~Mencius said, 'The able and virtuous
343 25| employ them as ministers?'~1. Mencius said to Sung Kâu-ch'ien, '
344 25| this perfect satisfaction?' Mencius replied, 'Honour virtue
345 25| kingdom virtuous as well.'~Mencius said, 'The mass of men wait
346 25| Wan, rouse themselves.'~Mencius said, 'Add to a man the
347 25| beyond the mass of men.'~Mencius said, 'Let the people be
348 25| puts them to death.'~1. Mencius said, 'Under a chief, leading
349 25| but in a small way!'~1. Mencius said, 'Kindly words do not
350 25| instructions get their hearts.'~1. Mencius said, 'The ability possessed
351 25| belong to all under heaven.'~Mencius said, 'When Shun was living
352 25| is not one of them.'~1. Mencius said, 'Wide territory and
353 25| without being told.'~1. Mencius said, 'Po-î, that he might
354 25| expression in question.'~1. Mencius said, 'Let it be seen to
355 26| Chapter 26~1. Mencius said, 'Confucius ascended
356 26| lesson after another.'~1. Mencius said, 'He who rises at cock-crowing
357 26| the thought of virtue.'~1. Mencius said, 'The principle of
358 26| disregards a hundred others.'~1. Mencius said, 'The hungry think
359 26| being equal to other men.'~Mencius said, 'A man with definite
360 26| throwing away the well.'~1. Mencius said, 'Benevolence and righteousness
361 26| they are not virtuous?'~3. Mencius replied, 'If they have the
362 26| eating without labouring?' Mencius replied, 'When a superior
363 26| king's son, Tien, asked Mencius, saying, 'What is the business
364 26| unemployed scholar?'~2. Mencius replied, 'To exalt his aim.'~
365 26| great man is complete.'~Mencius said, 'Supposing that the
366 26| been done in the case?'~2. Mencius said, 'Kâo-yâo would simply
367 26| forgetting the kingdom.'~1. Mencius, going from Fan to Ch'î,
368 26| sons in this respect?'~2. Mencius said, 'The residence, the
369 26| of their positions.'~1. Mencius said, 'To feed a scholar
370 26| such empty demonstrations.'~Mencius said, 'The bodily organs
371 26| with it altogether.'~2. Mencius said, 'That is just as if
372 26| do you say of this?'~4. Mencius replied, 'This is a case
373 26| neglected the thing itself.'~1. Mencius said, 'There are five ways
374 26| daily exert themselves!'~2. Mencius said, 'A great artificer
375 26| are able, follow him.'~1. Mencius said, 'When right principles
376 26| answer him. Why was that?'~2. Mencius replied, 'I do not answer
377 26| chargeable on Kang of T'ang.'~1. Mencius said, 'He who stops short
378 26| will retire with speed.'~Mencius said, 'In regard to inferior
379 26| and kind to creatures.'~1. Mencius said, 'The wise embrace
380 27| Chapter 27~1. Mencius said, 'The opposite indeed
381 27| said, 'What do you mean?' Mencius answered, 'The king Hûi
382 27| what they care for."'~1. Mencius said, 'In the "Spring and
383 27| correct one another.'~1. Mencius said, 'It would be better
384 27| pestles of the mortars?"'~1. Mencius said, 'There are men who
385 27| is there for fighting?'~Mencius said, 'A carpenter or a
386 27| skilful in the use of them.'~Mencius said, 'Shun's manner of
387 27| as a matter of course.'~Mencius said, 'From this time forth
388 27| between him and it.'~1. Mencius said, 'Anciently, the establishment
389 27| is to exercise violence.'~Mencius said, 'If a man himself
390 27| his wife and children.'~Mencius said, 'A bad year cannot
391 27| of virtue is complete.'~Mencius said, 'A man who loves fame
392 27| or a platter of soup.'~1. Mencius said, 'If men of virtue
393 27| for the expenditure.'~1. Mencius said, 'The people are the
394 27| appointed in their place.'~Mencius said, 'A sage is the teacher
395 27| their inspiring influence!'~Mencius said, 'When Confucius was
396 27| leave a strange State.'~Mencius said, 'The reason why the
397 27| from the mouths of men.'~2. Mencius observed, 'There is no harm
398 27| might be said of king Wan.'~Mencius said, 'Anciently, men of
399 27| make others enlightened.'~Mencius said to the disciple Kâo, '
400 27| than that of king Wan.'~2. Mencius observed, 'On what ground
401 27| nearly worn through.'~3. Mencius said, 'How can that be a
402 27| famine, Ch'an Tsin said to Mencius, 'The people are all thinking
403 27| do so a second time.'~2. Mencius said, 'To do it would be
404 28| Chapter 28~1. Mencius said, 'For the mouth to
405 28| sort of man is Yo-chang?' Mencius replied, 'He is a good man,
406 28| below the four last.'~1. Mencius said, 'Those who are fleeing
407 28| pen, they proceed to tie.'~Mencius said, 'There are the exactions
408 28| and sons are separated.'~Mencius said, 'The precious things
409 28| official situation in Ch'î, Mencius said, 'He is a dead man,
410 28| would meet with death?' Mencius replied, 'He was a man,
411 28| for nothing more.'~1. When Mencius went to T'ang, he was lodged
412 28| On this, some one asked Mencius, saying, 'Is it thus that
413 28| your followers pilfer?' Mencius replied, 'Do you think that
414 28| without any more ado.'~1. Mencius said, 'All men have some
415 28| a neighbour's wall.'~1. Mencius said, 'Words which are simple,
416 28| themselves is light.'~1. Mencius said, 'Yâo and Shun were
417 28| has been appointed.'~1. Mencius said, 'Those who give counsel
418 28| I stand in awe of them?'~Mencius said, 'To nourish the mind
419 28| but they will be few.'~1. Mencius said, 'Tsang Hsî was fond
420 28| broiled meat, or sheep-dates?' Mencius said, 'Mince and broiled
421 28| would not eat sheep-dates?' Mencius answered, 'For mince and
422 28| ambitious scholars of Lû?'~2. Mencius replied, 'Confucius not
423 28| ambitious?"'~4. 'Such,' replied Mencius, 'as Ch'in Chang, Tsang
424 28| people of the villages?"'~9. Mencius replied, 'They are those
425 28| thieves of virtue?'~11. Mencius replied, 'If you would blame
426 28| wickedness disappear.'~1. Mencius said, 'From Yâo and Shun
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