Sunday, April 12, 2026

Mo Tzu

 

Mo Tzu (5th century BCE)

“If men regard the families of others as they regard their own, then who would raise up his family to overthrow that of another? It would be like overthrowing his own.”

  • From the Basic Writings of Mo Tzu (Universal Love, part III, section 16), translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press, 1963).

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