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If you do not value rare treasures, you will stop others from stealing.

Laozi, 6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism

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The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell, British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

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Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.