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1. Who said: "There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination"?
2. Who said: "Between father and son, there should be no reproving admonitions to what is good. Such reproofs lead to alienation, and there is nothing more inauspicious than alienation"?
3. Who said: "Death, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer"?
4. Who said: "If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame"?
5. Who said: "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god"?
6. Who said: "It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly"?
7. Epicurus is a latinized form of the Greek name...
8. Mencius is a latinized form of the Chinese name...
9. Mencius studied under a disciple of Zisi, a grandson of Confucius.
10. Epicurus was such a glutton that he vomited twice a day.
11. Whose statements are these?
A. "All men have a mind which cannot bear to see the sufferings of others."
B. "The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards."
12. Whose statements are these?
A. "Those animals which are incapable of making covenants with one another, to the end that they may neither inflict nor suffer harm, are without either justice or injustice. And those tribes which either could not or would not form mutual covenants to the same end are in like case."
B. "In regard to inferior creatures, the superior man is kind to them, but not loving. In regard to people generally, he is loving to them, but not affectionate. He is affectionate to his parents."
13. Whose statements are these?
A. "Heaven does not speak."
B. "It is pointless for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
14. Whose statements are these?
A. "If a man can prevent the evils of hunger and thirst from being any evils to his mind, he need not have any sorrow about not being equal to other men."
B. "A man who only eats and drinks is counted mean by others, because he nourishes what is little to the neglect of what is great."
15. Whose statements are these?
A. "Friendship should be maintained without any presumption on the ground of one's superior age, or station, or the circumstances of his relatives. Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority."
B. "Neither he who is always seeking material aid from his friends nor he who never considers such aid is a true friend; for one engages in petty trade, taking a favor instead of gratitude, and the other deprives himself of hope for the future."
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