Mencius - Mind Quotes

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When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

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He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

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All men have the mind which cannot bear [to see the suffering of] others.

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Benevolence is man's mind, and righteousness is man's path.

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Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

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The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind.

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Moral principles please our minds as beef and mutton and pork please our mouths.

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The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

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