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Own Quotes by Zhuangzi
- We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they…
- I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
- To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
- Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early…
- All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects,…
- My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more.…
- If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort…
- Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao.…
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