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-300 AD·Laozi, China
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become preoccupied with what we are not.
Those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.
The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror — going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.
Zhuangzi·300 BCCherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1839He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1838The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
