If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  • -- Lao Tzu 老子

大道废,有仁义;智慧出,有大伪;六亲不和,有孝慈;国家昏乱,有忠臣。

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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

所有形式的对人类的干预,接近他们,将他们塑造成违背他们意愿的你自己的模式,所有的思想控制和条件作用,因此,是对使他们成为男人和他们的价值终极的男人的否定。

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.

我很确定,神只给我们一条诫命,一项义务,那就是怜悯别人。