Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“the people often, deceived by an illusive good, desire their own ruin; and, unless made sensible of the evil of the one and the benefit of the other course, they will expose the republic to infinite peril and damage”

Machiavelli 1469 – 1527 CE via Detmold, Shan Dao
(Niccolò Machiavelli)
from Discourses on Livy

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