The best Quotes by Mencius

The best Quotes by Mencius

Mencius (born Meng Ke, or Mengzi; 372–289 BC) was a Chinese Confucian philosopher who has often been described as the "second Sage", that is, second to 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.

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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Objectives Motivation

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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Beauty Appearance

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Beginning Motivation

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Music Sad Quotes

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Clash of Kings

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Power Kings Monarchy

You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted - Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

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A wise king never seeks out war, but he must always be ready for it.

Odin in Thor

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A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

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Children & Childhood Fairytales

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

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Youth Men Birthday Age

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul Getty

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Life Birthday Age Sand

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

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Beauty Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Youth Age Generations

A woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.

Coco Chanel

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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