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Confucianism -> Lunheng -> Daoxu -> 55

Of all the beings with blood in their veins
there are none but are born,
and of those endowed with life there are none but die.
From the fact that they were born, one knows that they must die.
Heaven and Earth were not born,
therefore they do not die.
The Yin and the Yang were not born,
therefore they do not die.
Death is the correlate of birth, and birth the counterpart of death.
That which has a beginning, must have an end, and that which has an end, must necessarily have had a beginning.
Only what is without beginning or end, lives for ever and never dies.


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