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TheHuainanzi( Hoài Nam Tử;pinyinHuáinánzǐ,Wade-GilesHuai-nan Tzu;literally "The Masters/Philosophers of Huainan" ) is a 2nd century BCE Chinese philosophical classic from theHan dynastythat blendsDaoist,Confucianist,andLegalistconcepts, including theories such asYin-Yangand theFive Phases.It was written under the patronage ofLiu An,King ofHuainan,a legendarily prodigious author.
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- Don't fight for peace. Peace will come naturally.
- Chapter 12.
- The country that surrenders will have its freedom.
- Chapter 15.
- “Trăm xuyên dị nguyên, mà toàn về với hải”
- Translation: A hundred rivers, from other sources may they be, shall all return to the sea.
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- Hoài Nam Tử,original text in Chinese 21 chapters
- Tao, the Great Luminant,Morgan's translation