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How do I know that enjoying life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death we are not like people who got lost in early childhood and do not know the way home?

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He who knows what is of God and who knows what is of Man has reached indeed the height (of wisdom).

How do I know that the dead do not regret their previous longing for life?

From the Three Dynasties down to the present day it has been like this. The good and honest people are ignored, while spineless flatterers are advanced.

Away then with wisdom and knowledge, and great robbers will disappear!

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

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