Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“when Confucius was starving and in trouble, he did not hesitate to grab at anything at all to keep himself alive; but, when he was satiated, he behaved hypocritically in order to appear refined. What greater vileness and hypocrisy could there be.”

Mozi 墨子 470 – 391 BCE via Burton Watson
(Mòzǐ)
Chinese personification of Newton, da Vinci, and Jesus
from Against Confucians

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