Source "On Mencius and Li Lou"
Analysis: Without compasses and rulers, squares and circles are not drawn correctly.
2. Yes, and then know the weight; Degree, then know the length.
Source "Mencius Hui Liang Wang Shang"
Analysis: only when you weigh it with a scale can you know the weight; Measure it with a ruler and you will know the length. It means that only when you experience everything yourself can you have a deeper understanding.
3. People who do wrong things are asking for more happiness and returning to the world.
Source "On Mencius and Li Lou"
Analysis: If anyone's behavior fails to achieve the expected results, he will turn to himself for reasons. If he is right, the people of the world will naturally turn to him.
4. I am old and people are old; Young people, young people, young people.
Source "Mencius Hui Liang Wang Shang"
Brief analysis: respect your elders, and thus extend to respect others' elders; Take care of your younger generation, thus extending to the younger generation who care about others.
5. Those who gain the Tao help more, while those who lose the Tao help less. When there is little help, relatives will be there; Help more, and the world will be at peace.
Source "Mencius Ugliness in the Sun"
Analysis: People who practice benevolent policies will have more people to help and support him, while those who do not practice benevolent policies will have fewer people to help and support him. Too few people help him, and relatives inside and outside will betray him. Many people help him, and everyone will submit to him.
6. Fish is what I want; Bear's paw is what I want, and I can't have both. He who makes a bear's paw instead of a fish is also. Life is what I want; Righteousness is what I want, and I can't have both. Those who give up their lives for righteousness are also.
Source "Mencius Gaozishang"
Analysis: I want fish and bear's paw. If I can't get both at the same time, I'd rather give up fish and choose bear's paw. Life is what I want, justice is what I want. If these two things cannot be obtained at the same time, then I would rather sacrifice my life and choose righteousness.
7. A wife will insult herself, and then others will insult her; The family will destroy itself, and then people will be destroyed; The country will cut itself, and then the people will cut themselves.
Source "On Mencius and Li Lou"
Brief analysis: people will insult bring disgrace to oneself only if he has the behavior; Before others destroy it, there must be self-destruction in the family; Countries must first have their own reasons for crusade, and others will crusade.
8.(b √) Words know what it covers, obscene words know what it is trapped in, evil words know what it is far away from, and evasive words know what it lacks.
Source "Mencius Gongsun Ugly"
Brief analysis: biased speech, knowing its incompleteness; Excessive speech, knowing that it is in the wrong place; Bad words, know where they deviate from the right path; A word that avoids the heavy weight, you know what is unreasonable.
9. Wealth can't be lewd, poverty can't be moved, and power can't be bent. This is called a gentleman.
Source "Mencius Teng Wengong"
Analysis: Money and status can't confuse and corrupt you, poverty and low status can't change your ambition, and power and force can't make you yield and defect. This is the real gentleman.
10. Give up on yourself and can't talk to you; Give up on yourself, and do nothing.
Source "On Mencius and Li Lou"
Brief analysis: a person who hurts himself can't talk to him about valuable words; A person who gives up on himself (a person who is extremely irresponsible to himself) can't make a valuable career with him.
1 1. Therefore, the sky will fall to the people of Sri Lanka, so we must first suffer their minds, their bones and muscles, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and mess with their actions, so we must be patient and get what we can't do.
Source "Mencius Gaozi"
Analysis: Therefore, God is about to place a great responsibility on such a person. First of all, we should torture his mind, make his bones and muscles tired, starve him, make him thin, make him poor, and turn things upside down, which is always unsatisfactory. Through these, he will be alert in his heart, firm in character and increase his talents that he does not have.
12. Those who respect others don't insult others, and those who are frugal don't take others.
Source "On Mencius and Li Lou"
Analysis: People who are respectful to others will not insult others, and thrifty people will not rob others (things).
13. People who love others will always love others; People who respect others will always respect others.
Source "Mencius Li Lou"
Analysis: People who love others will be loved by others; People who respect others will be respected by others.
14. Don't be long, don't be expensive, and don't be friends with brothers.
Source "Mencius Zhang Wan"
Analysis: Don't rely on your age, your status and your family wealth to make friends.
15. If you are poor, you will be immune to it, and if you are good, you will help the world.
Source "Mencius Dedicated"
Brief analysis: When frustrated, we should keep a clean and honest life and cultivate personal morality. When you are frustrated, you will benefit the world and let everyone in the world do it (keep good).
16. The weather is not as good as the geographical position, and the geographical position is not as good as people.
Source "Mencius Ugliness in the Sun"
Analysis: the weather conditions conducive to combat are not comparable to the geographical situation conducive to combat, and the geographical situation conducive to combat is not comparable to the will of the people and internal unity in combat.
17. Adults don't have to believe what they say or what they do, but what they mean.
Source "Mencius Li Lou"
Analysis: A knowledgeable person doesn't have to keep his word or have a result, as long as it is moral.
18. I am good at cultivating my noble spirit. It is qi, as strong as it is, and it is harmless to raise it directly, so it is stuffed between heaven and earth. It is also qi, which is consistent with righteousness and Tao; It's okay. I'm sorry, too.
Source "Mencius Gongsun Ugly"
Analysis: I am good at cultivating my lofty spirit. This noble spirit is the greatest and most powerful. If we cultivate it with justice instead of evil, we can make it everywhere in the world. That noble spirit, coupled with benevolence and morality, will be as weak and tired as a person without food.
19. Compassion is the purpose of benevolence; The heart of shame and evil, the end of righteousness; The words of the heart are the end of the ceremony; The heart of right and wrong is also the end of wisdom. Man has four ends, but he still has four bodies.
Source "Mencius Gongsun Ugly"
Brief analysis: compassion is the beginning of benevolence; Shame is the beginning of justice; Resignation is the beginning of the ceremony; Right and wrong is the beginning of wisdom. Benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and wisdom are the four beginnings, just like all human beings. People have these four beginnings, just like people have limbs.
20. People can do nothing and then do something.
Source "Mencius Li Lou"
Analysis: People's energy is limited. Only by giving up some things and not doing them can we concentrate on other things and achieve something.