Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“expelled without a penny and obliged to continue the abominable occupation which to you men seems so amusing and which to us in nothing but an abyss of misery... Ah! sir, if you could imagine what it is to be forced to caress impartially an old tradesman, a lawyer, a monk, a gondolier, an abbé; to be exposed to every insult and outrage; to be reduced often to borrow a petticoat in order to go and find some disgusting man who will lift it...”

Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet 1694 – 1778 CE
from Candide

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