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A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Though the world might praise him and say he had really found something, he would look unconcerned and never turn his head; though the world might condemn him and say he had lost something, he would look serene and pay no heed. The praise and blame of the world are no loss or gain to him.
Zhuangzi, Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 369–286 BC)
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Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.
Zhuangzi, Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 369–286 BC)
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How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712–1778)
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