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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.

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.

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.

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.