"Friendship with a man is friendship with..." - Quote by Mencius

“He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.”

“If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.”

“When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.”

“Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.”

“There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.”

“My friend is one... who take me for what I am.”

“Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.”

“I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.”

“Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.”