Mar 21, 2022
(Via Michael Talon)
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“When human rulers do not have the Way, at home they brutalize their people, while abroad they invade and despoil neighboring countries. Because of brutality in the homeland, the people’s production is disrupted; because of incursions abroad, war repeatedly breaks out.” —Han Fei, Interpreting Lao (280–233 BC) translation by Thomas Cleary (via modernshxmxn)