Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“Harmony of mind and body—that was the Greeks' supreme ideal. Hypertrophy of one to the detriment of the other they considered barbaric. When Greece began to decline, the athlete's body began at the same to to hypertrophy and to kill his mind.”

Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco

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