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Chapter 19. <strong>The</strong> Wisdom Of ContentmentYANG CHU said:“How can a body possessing the four things, acomfortable house, fine clothes, good food, and prettywomen, still long for anything else? He who does so hasan insatiable nature, and insatiableness is a worm thateats body and mind.“Loyalty cannot set the sovereign at ease, but perhapsmay imperil one's body. Righteousness cannot help theworld, but perhaps may do harm to one's life. <strong>The</strong>sovereign's peace not being brought about <strong>by</strong> loyalty, thefame <strong>of</strong> the loyal dwindles to nothing, and the worldderiving no pr<strong>of</strong>it from righteousness, the fame <strong>of</strong> therighteous amounts to nought.“How the sovereign and subjects can alike be set at ease,and how the world and I can simultaneously be helped, isset forth in the dictum <strong>of</strong> the ancients."Yu Tse [1] said:“He who renounces fame has no sorrow."Lao Tse said:“Fame is the follower <strong>of</strong> reality. Now, however, as

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