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"Where government stands aloof the people open up where government steps in the people slip away happiness rests in misery misery hides in happiness who knows where they end there is no direction direction turns into indirection good turns into evil the people have been lost for a long long time thus the sage is an edge that doesn't cut a point that doesn't pierce a line that doesn't extend a light that doesn't blind"

Author

Lao Tzu

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English

"Where government stands aloof the people open up where government steps in the people slip away happiness rests in misery misery hides in happiness who knows where they end there is no direction direction turns into indirection good turns into evil the people have been lost for a long long time thus the sage is an edge that doesn't cut a point that doesn't pierce a line that doesn't extend a light that doesn't blind"

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