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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: 372 BC
Died: 289 BC (aged 83)
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