Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had someone cried out and been believed saying, 'Do not listen to this imposter.'”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778 CE via GDH Cole, Shan Dao

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