"Without going out of the door
One can know the whole world;
Without peeping out of the window
One can see the Tao of heaven
The further one travels 
The less one knows.
There the sage knows everything without traveling;
He names everything without seeing it;
He accomplishes everything without doing it"
 Tao Te Ching - XLVII


"Once upon a time, I, Chang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering
hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly...suddenly,
I awaked...Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a
butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
  Chang Tzu - II.5


"Heaven will not abolish winter just because mankind does not like cold
weather.  Nor will Earth shrink because we object to long distance."
  Hsu\"n Tzu - 

Those who nowadays serve their sovereigns say, "We can for our
sovereigns enlarge the limits of the cultivated ground, and fill his
treasuries and arsenals."  Such persons are nowadays called "Good
ministers," but anciently they were called "Robbers of the people."
  Mencius

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