“If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold.”
“If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly.”
“If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.”
“How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?”
“But to judge some people impartially we must renounce certain preconceived opinions and our habitual attitude to the ordinary people about us.”
“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”