Sublime

he defends the man against the usual accusations of hypocrisy (“Defense of Seneca and Plutarch”) and engages deeply both with Seneca’s notion of constancy (which he reinterprets as primarily a military virtue, not one to be adopted by a private citizen) 18 and most importantly with his ideal of clemency, from Seneca’s Letters and especially from De

HO-SHANG KUNG says, “Those who honor the Way and Virtue are not fond of weapons. They keep hatred from their hearts. They eliminate disaster before it arises. They are angered by nothing. They use kindness among neighbors and virtue among strangers. They conquer their enemies without fighting and command through humility.”

“the within of things is consciousness, the without of things is form.”

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu:

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