Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“This active psychological catastrophe in three acts was the commonest theme—the story of Ajax in Sophocles’ play… the condition of being spoiled by success, the consequent loss of mental and moral balance, and the blind headstrong, ungovernable impulse which sweeps an unbalanced soul into attempting the impossible.”

Arnold Toynbee 1889 – 1975 CE
from A Study of History

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