Quote of the Day by Mencius: Mencius’s quote connects four ordinary human feelings with the beginnings of four important moral qualities: compassion with benevolence, shame with righteousness, modesty with propriety, and the ability to approve or disapprove with knowledge. The point is not that feeling compassion automatically makes someone benevolent, or that feeling shame automatically makes someone righteous. Rather, these emotions are described as starting points that can be developed through judgment, conduct and practice.
