Mencius

Mencius (c. 372-289 BCE)

"When the aged wear silk and eat meat and the masses are neither cold nor hungry, it is impossible for their prince not to be a true king."

• From The Mencius (Book I, Part A, section 7) by Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 2003).

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