“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”(Lao Tze)

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Like all good proverbs, there tends to be some truth in them. Besides, proverbs are meant to be short, to not generalise to some degree you'd need an essay and it would lose its charm.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

But this one is literally wrong.

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In a literal sense, perhaps. But figuratively, depending on the context? This was written a millenia ago so would not be applied to modern politics or ideology, after all.