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"To know unconsciously is best. To presume to know what you don't is sick. Only by recognizing the sickness of sickness is it possible to be not sick. The sages' freedom from ills was from recognizing the sickness of sickness, so they didn't suffer from sickness."

Author

Lao Tzu

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English

"To know unconsciously is best. To presume to know what you don't is sick. Only by recognizing the sickness of sickness is it possible to be not sick. The sages' freedom from ills was from recognizing the sickness of sickness, so they didn't suffer from sickness."

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