Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

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  We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light

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  The laws of this world are for children.

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  Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

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