Everyone can have a kind heart that is selfless and harmless, and the benevolence in this world can be inexhaustible. Everyone can have a heart without selfish desires and stealing pillars through walls, and the righteousness in the world will be inexhaustible.
On Monk is an essay by Su Shi, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. Mencius, whose name was Ke, was born in Zou Guo (now southeast of Zoucheng, Shandong Province). Philosophers, thinkers, politicians and educators in the Warring States period are the representatives of Confucianism after Confucius and before Xunzi, and they are also called "Confucius and Mencius" with Confucius.