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"All the world knows beauty but if that becomes beautiful this becomes ugly all the word knows good but if that becomes good this becomes bad the coexistence of have and have not the coproduction of hard and easy the correlation of long and short the codependence of high and low the correspondence of note and noise the coordination of first and last is endless thus the sage performs effortless deeds and teaches wordless lessons he doesn't start all the things he begins he doesn't presume on what he does he doesn't claim what he achieves and because he makes no claim he suffers no loss"

Author

Lao Tzu

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English

"All the world knows beauty but if that becomes beautiful this becomes ugly all the word knows good but if that becomes good this becomes bad the coexistence of have and have not the coproduction of hard and easy the correlation of long and short the codependence of high and low the correspondence of note and noise the coordination of first and last is endless thus the sage performs effortless deeds and teaches wordless lessons he doesn't start all the things he begins he doesn't presume on what he does he doesn't claim what he achieves and because he makes no claim he suffers no loss"

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