"The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine."
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"There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man."
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"There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life."
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"Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do."
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"We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad."
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"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks."
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"If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it."
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"Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy."
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"The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy."
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"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother"
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"Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion."
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"In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them."
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"I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living."
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"What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?"
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"I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings."
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"The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy."
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"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice."
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"Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters."
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"I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing."
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"I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content."
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