Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.
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