“Those in positions of power spend day and night plotting and pondering about what to do. The body is treated in a very careless way. People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. If they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by concerns: a terrible fate.”

— Zhuangzi

Ch. 18 (Martin Palmer/Elizabeth Breuily, Penguin Publishing 1996)

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classic Chinese philosopher -369–-286 BC

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