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Politics has never, ever, taught anyone how to go about earning his bread honestly; its precepts have served only as a spur to cowardice and an encouragement to vise.
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Still men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves, or as if anyone could possess under a tyrant a single thing in his own name.
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...when I get mixed up in war or politics -- I am conscious of nothing save physical discomfort and a deep desire for this damned nonsense to be over.
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If the "trial of war criminals" that some people enjoy dreaming about ever happens, it can only happen after revolutions in the Allied countries.
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When Sages are rejected as rulers, and the services of the wise are discarded, the people's wealth will increase a hundredfold; for their hearts will all be set on covetousness. When benevolence and rectitude in government are abjured, such will be the height of disorder that the people will revert to their natural qualities of filial piety and compassion, by sheer force of reaction. When ingenuities of luxury and eagerness for gain are renounced, there will be no more robbers—for there will be no accumulations of wealth to be worth stealing.
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In the course of Chinese history numerous dynasties had thus risen and fallen, with their rise and fall largely prompted by internal causes.
Chronology :
April 07, 2020 : Corruption -- Added.
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