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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2005-02-01 05:37 pm
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Better living through Su Shi: Second quote

(For [livejournal.com profile] 0595.)
The reason people seek good fortune and avoid calamity is that good fortune brings happiness while calamity brings grief. However, people's desires are infinite, and yet the things in the world that can satisfy those desires are finite. Therefore, valuations of good and bad fight inside us, and the problem of which things to acquire and which to reject hangs before us. Consequently, our moments of happiness are few, while our moments of grief are many. This amounts to seeking calamity and avoiding good fortune. How could this be human nature? (Chaoren tai ji, tr. Egan.)
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[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2005-02-02 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Do I have to start calling him "Su Dongpo" to prevent you from being a wiseacre?

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2005-02-02 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Only if you want me to stop making up fake philosophical statements about food.

*snif* And here I thought you'd LIKE it.

[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2005-02-02 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
LOVE THE BURN
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