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  Chapter seventy three through eighty one. Chapter seventy three, Section one. He
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  whose boldness appears in his daring to do wrong in defiance of the laws is
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  put to death. He whose boldness appears in his not daring to do so
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  lives. On of these two cases, the one appears to be advantageous and
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  the other to be injurious. But when Heaven's anger smites a man, who
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  the cause shall truly scan on this account, the sage feels a difficulty as
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  to what to do in the former case. Chapter seventy three, Section two.
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  It is the way of Heaven not to strive, and yet it skillfully
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  overcomes not to speak, and yet it is skillful in obtaining a reply.
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  Does not call, and yet men come to it of themselves. Its demonstrations
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  are quiet, and yet its plans are skillful and effective. The meshes of
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  the net of Heaven are large, far apart, but letting nothing escape.
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  Chapter seventy four, Section one. The people do not fear death. To
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  what purpose is it to try to frighten them with death? If the people
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  were always in awe of death, and I could always seize those who do
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  wrong and put them to death, who would dare to do wrong. Chapter
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  seventy four, Section two. There is always one who presides over the infliction
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  death. He who would inflict death in the room of him who so presides
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  over it may be described as hewing wood instead of a great carpenter. Seldom
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  is it that he who undertakes the hewing instead of the great carpenter does not
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  cut his own hands. Chapter seventy five, Section one. The people suffer
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  from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is
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  through this that they suffer famine. Chapter seventy five, Section two. The
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  people are difficult to govern because of the excessive agency of their superiors in governing
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  them. It is through this that they are difficult to govern. Chapter seventy
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  five, Section three. The people make light of dying because of the greatness
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  of their labors in seeking for the means of living. It is this which
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  makes them think light of dying. Thus, it is that to leave the
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  subject of living altogether out of view is better than to set a high value
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  on it. Seventy six, Section one. Man at his birth is supple
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  and weak, at his death firm and strong. So it is with all
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  things trees and plants in their early growth are soft and brittle, at their
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  death, dry and withered Chapter seventy six, Section two. Thus it is
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  that firmness and strength are the concomitants of death, softness and weakness the concomitance
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  of life. Chapter seventy six, Section three. Hence, he who relies
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  on the strength of his forces does not conquer, and a tree which is
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  strong will fill the outstretched arms, and thereby invites the feller Chapter seventy six,
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  Section four. Therefore, the place of what is firm and strong is
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  below, and that of what is soft and weak is above. Chapter seventy
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  seven, Section one. May not the way or taw of heaven be compared
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  to the method of bending a bow. The part of the bow which was
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  high is brought low, and what was low is raised up. So Heaven
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  diminishes where there is superabundance, and supplements where there is deficiency. Chapter seventy
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  seven, Section two. It is the way of Heaven to diminish superabundance and
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  to supplement deficiency. It is not so with the way of man. He
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  takes away from those who have not enough to add to his own superabundance.
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  Chapter seventy seven, Section three. Who can take his own superabundance and therewith
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  serve all under heaven only he who is in possession of the Tao. Chapter
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  seventy seven, Section four. Therefore, the ruling sage acts without claiming the
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  results as his. He achieves his merit and does not rest arrogantly in it.
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  He does not wish to display his superiority. Chapter seventy eight, Section
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  one. There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water,
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  and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong, there is nothing that
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  can take precedence of it, for there is nothing so effectual for which it
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  can be changed. Chapter seventy eight, Section two. Everyone in the world
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  knows that the soft overcomes the hard, and the weak the strong, but
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  no one is able to carry it out in practice. Chapter seventy eight,
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  Section three. Therefore a sage has said, he who accepts his state's reproach
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  is hailed. Therefore its altars lord to him who bears men's direful woes.
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  They all the name of King Accord. Chapter seventy eight, Section four.
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  Words that are strictly true seem to be paradoxical. Chapter seventy nine, Section
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  one. When a reconciliation is effected between two parties after a great animosity,
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  there is sure to be a grudge remaining in the mind of the one who
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  was wrong, And how can this be beneficial to the other? Chapter seventy
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  nine, Section two. Therefore, to guard against this, the sage keeps
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  the left hand portion of the record of the engagement, and does not insist
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  on the speedy fulfillment of it by the other party. So he who has
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  the attributes of the Tao regards only the conditions of the engagement, while he
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  who has not those attributes regards only the conditions favorable to himself. Chapter seventy
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  nine, Section three. In the way of Heaven, there is no partiality
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  of love. It is always on the side of the good man. Chapter
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  eighty Section one. In a little state with a small population, I would
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  so order it that though there were individuals with the abilities of ten or one
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  hundred men, there should be no employment of them. I would make the
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  people, while looking on death as a grievous thing, yet not remove elsewhere
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  to avoid it. Chapter eighty Section two. Though they had boats and carriages,
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  they should have no occasion to ride in them. Though they had buff
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  coats and sharp weapons, they should have no occasion to dawn or use them.
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  Chapter eighty Section three. I would make the people return to the use
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  of knotted chords instead of the written characters. Chapter eighty section four. They
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  should think their coarse foods sweet, their plain clothes beautiful, their poor dwellings
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  places of rest, and their common simple ways sources of enjoyment. Chapter eighty
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  section five. There should be a neighboring state within sight, and the voices
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  of the fowls and dogs should be heard all the way from it to us.
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  But I would make the people to old age, even to death,
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  not have any intercourse with it. Chapter eighty one, Section one. Sincere
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  words are not fine. Fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled
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  in the Tao do not dispute about it. The disputations are not skilled in
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  it. Those who know the Tao are not extensively learned. The extensively learned
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  do not know it. Chapter eighty one, Section two. The sage does
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  not accumulate for himself. The more that he expends for others, the more
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  does he possess of his own. The more that he gives to others,
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  the more does he have himself Chapter eighty one, Section three, with all
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  the sharpness of the way of Heaven, it injures not. With all the
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  doing in the way of the Sage he does not strive. And of section two