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Mengzi (Mencius)孟子
A book that opens with “Why must Your Majesty speak of profit?” and arrives at “The people are the most precious, and the ruler the lightest.” Where the Analects instructs quietly, Mencius argues before kings and presses them with questions. Fifty paces and a hundred paces; the flood-like qi; the four beginnings, which stir in anyone who sees a child about to fall into a well; giving up life to take hold of rightness; the saying that when Heaven is about to lay a great charge upon a man it first afflicts his mind — all of these come from here. It is the companion to the Analects, already on these shelves, and the two are best read side by side.
Fourteen books, 260 chapters. The turns of speech within a chapter were kept by dividing the lines.
Complete in one volume
- Exhausting the Mind, Part Two盡心下 · 38 passages · 2,575 Chinese characters
- Exhausting the Mind, Part One盡心上 · 46 passages · 2,738 Chinese characters
- Gaozi, Part Two告子下 · 16 passages · 2,955 Chinese characters
- Gaozi, Part One告子上 · 20 passages · 2,925 Chinese characters
- Wan Zhang, Part Two萬章下 · 9 passages · 2,741 Chinese characters
- Wan Zhang, Part One萬章上 · 9 passages · 2,995 Chinese characters
- Li Lou, Part Two離婁下 · 33 passages · 2,654 Chinese characters
- Li Lou, Part One離婁上 · 28 passages · 2,710 Chinese characters
- Duke Wen of Teng, Part Two滕文公下 · 10 passages · 2,900 Chinese characters
- Duke Wen of Teng, Part One滕文公上 · 5 passages · 2,805 Chinese characters
- Gongsun Chou, Part Two公孫丑下 · 14 passages · 2,723 Chinese characters
- Gongsun Chou, Part One公孫丑上 · 9 passages · 3,014 Chinese characters
- King Hui of Liang, Part Two梁惠王下 · 16 passages · 3,286 Chinese characters
- King Hui of Liang, Part One梁惠王上 · 7 passages · 2,721 Chinese characters