YANG CHU said:
"Men resemble heaven and earth in that they cherish five principles. "If there were a body born complete I could not possess it, and I could not possess things not to be parted with. For possessing a body or things would be unlawfully appropriating a body belonging to the whole universe, and appropriating things belonging to the universe which no sage would do. "He who regards as common property a body appertaining to the universe and the things of the of the universe is a perfect man. "And that is the highest degree of perfection."
1 The moral life of men is based on five principles (virtues), benvolence, uprightness, propriety, knowledge, and good faith.
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