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Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure

21 chapters, 57 passages

Contents

Chapter I the Vanity of Fame
Chapter II Real and False Greatness
Chapter III the Brevity of Conscious Life
Chapter IV Death the Equaliser
Chapter V False Virtues
Chapter VI the Ideal Life
Chapter VII Duty to the Living and the Dead
Chapter VIII the Art of Life
Chapter IX the Happy Voluptuaries
Chapter X the Joyous Life of Tuan-Mu-Shu
Chapter XI the Folly of Desire for Long Life
Chapter XII Self-Sacrifice and Self-Aggrandisement
Chapter XIII the Vanity of Reputation
Chapter XIV Difficulty and Ease of Government
Chapter XV All Things Pass
Chapter XVI the Nature of Man
Chapter XVII the Four Chimeras
Chapter XVIII All Pleasures Are Relative
Chapter XIX the Wisdom of Contentment

Front matter

Title Page
INTRODUCTION

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