Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
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Xunzi
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
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Xunzi
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.
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Zhuangzi
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.
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Zhuangzi
Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.
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Zhuangzi
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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Zhuangzi
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one’s brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
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Wang wei
I wish we could be trees deep in the mountains,
touching, twining limb around limb
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Bai Juyi
It's human nature to dote on young ones,
and people when they grow old get soft-hearted.
But the sweetest wine in the end turns sour,
the moon, however full, eventually must wane.
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Bai Juyi
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
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Yamamoto Tsunetomo
No one belongs to me; I belong to no one. There is no "I" or "mine"; all is blissful aloneless.
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Vyasa