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The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.
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A man who has nothing to worry about immediately busies himself in creating something, gets into some absorbing game, falls in love, prepares to conquer some enemy, or hunts lions or the North Pole or what not.
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It isn't changing around from place to place that keeps you lively. It's getting time on your side. Working with it, not against it.
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I am sensible of the fact that I no longer feel the allure that all this pink world used to hold for me.... And the fact is that I am not the same person I once was. Something has changed. The passage of 35 years over my now stooping shoulders has wrought changes in my face and body and in my inner self and how I view things.
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Superior Person: Well, I must repeat that, were I to practice any form of asceticism, I should incline to that which does not do things by halves.
Vegetarian: Of course. That is invariably the sentiment of those who do not do things at all.
[Chapter 3: The Raison D'être of Vegetarianism, Page 11.]
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It is the vise, but not the excellence of manners, that they are continually being deserted by the character; they are castoff-clothes or shells, claiming the respect which belonged to the living creature.
["Life Without Principle," by Henry David Thoreau, 1863.]
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The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no substantial existence enters where there is no crevice. I know hereby what advantage belongs to doing nothing with a purpose.
There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.
["Tao Teh King," or, "The Tao and Its Characteristics," by Lao Tzu, circa 600, BC, translated by James Legge, using the translation by Frederic H. Balfour as a secondary reference for obscure points, Part 2, Ch. 43:1-2.]
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...if we cannot find our account in one world we shall in another. It is a great pleasure to see and do new things.
[Chapter 14: The reception Candide and Cacambo met with among the Jesuits in Paraguay, Page 33.]
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