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"When someone wants to take over the world and do some work on it, I can see he won't be able. The world is a spirit-thing, it can't be 'worked' on. One who works ruins one who grasps loses. Yes, things: Sometimes they will go ahead, sometimes follow after sometimes they will be snorting wildly sometimes breathing easily sometimes they will be strong, sometimes weak sometimes they will break, sometimes destroy. And so the Wise Person: Avoids excess, avoids extravagance, avoids being grandiose."
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Lao TzuBook
Tao Te Ching
Version: 9