Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“Faustina has been as much celebrated for her gallantries as for her beauty. The grave simplicity of the philosopher was ill calculated to engage her wanton levity, or to fix that unbounded passion for variety... Marcus thanked the gods for bestowing on him a wife so faithful, so gentle, and of such a wonderful simplicity of manners. The obsequious Senate, at his earnest request, declared her a goddess.”

Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794 CE
from Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire

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