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A person without passions is one who does not let good and evil disturb him and accepts whatever happens
Drawn from what Zhuangzi said
What Zhuangzi actually said
- Zhuangzi Chinese Daoist philosopher of the fourth century BC…
By a man without passions I mean one who does not permit good and evil to disturb his internal economy, but rather falls in with whatever happens, as a matter of course, and does not add to the sum of his mortality.
Where this was said
↗Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (tr. Herbert A. Giles, 1889)gutenberg.org
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