Mencius Quotes About Virtue
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When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.
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Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
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The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.
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Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
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