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Yen Hui asked Kung-nì, saying, "When the mother of Mang-sun Tshâi died, in all his wailing for her he did not shed a tear; in the core of his heart he felt no distress; during all the mourning rites, he exhibited no sorrow. 
"Without these three things, he was considered to have discharged his mourning well—is it that in the state of Lû one who has not the reality ma...

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BONDAGE AND FREEDOM 
Then, holding firmly mind, with knowing soul at rest, know your self within yourself face to face saying, "This am I" The life-ocean, whose waves are birth and dying, is shoreless; cross over it, fulfilling the end of being, resting firm in the Eternal. 
Thinking things not self are "I"—this is bondage for a man; this, arising from unwisd...

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For as we see that they who make an honest livelihood by commerce, by industry, by forming the public revenue, have occasion for their earnings; so, whoever sees at your house the crowds of accusers and judges together; whoever sees rich and guilty criminals plotting the corruption of trials with you as their adviser, and your bargainings for pay for the distributi...

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Diogenes was gathering figs, and was told by the keeper that not long before a man had hanged himself on that very fig tree. 
"Then," said he, "I will now purge it." 
Seeing an Olympian victor casting repeated glances at a courtesan, "See," he said, "yonder ram frenzied for battle, how he is held fast by the neck fascinated by a common minx." 
Handsom...

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The Stoic definition of love is an effort toward friendliness due to visible beauty appearing, its sole end being friendship, not bodily enjoyment. 
At all events, they allege that Thrasonides, although he had his mistress in his power, abstained from her because she hated him. 
By which it is shown, they think, that love depends upon regard, as Chrysippus sa...

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