“Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.”
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“Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damning them behind their backs.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“All attempts to create something admirable are the weapons of evil. You may think you are practising benevolence and righteousness, but in effect you will be creating a kind of artificiality. Where a model exists, copies will be made of it; where success has been gained, boasting follows; where debate exists, there will be outbreaks of hostility.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“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 obsessed with what we are not.”
― Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
― Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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