Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“Solon, to save his country, put a trick upon both parties, and privately promised the poor a division of the lands, and the rich security for their debts... the rich consented because he was wealthy, the poor because he was honest.”

Plutarch 46 – 120 CE via Dryden Translation
(Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus)
from Parallel Lives

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