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Yang Chus Garden of Pleasure

By Translated by Anton Forke

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CONTENTS

Contents

INTRODUCTION    7
CHAPTER

I.    THE VANITY OF FAME    36
II.    REAL AND FALSE GREATNESS    37
III.    THE BREVITY OF CONSCIOUS LIFE    38
IV.    DEATH THE EQUALIZER    40
V.    FALSE VIRTUES    41
VI.    THE IDEAL LIFE    42
VII.    DUTY TO THE LIVING AND THE DEAD    42
VIII.    THE ART OF LIFE    43
IX.    THE HAPPY VOLUPTUARIES    45
X.    THE JOYOUS LIFE OF TUAN-MU-SHU    49
XI.    THE FOLLY OF DESIRE FOR LONG LIFE    51
XII.    SELF-SACRIFICE AND SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT    52
XIII.    THE VANITY OF REPUTATION    54
XIV.    DIFFICULTY AND EASE OF GOVERNMENT    58
XV.    ALL THINGS PASS    59
XVI.    THE NATURE OF MAN    60
XVII.    THE FOUR CHIMERAS    61
XVIII.    ALL PLEASURES ARE RELATIVE    62
XIX.    THE WISDOM OF CONTENTMENT    63