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"He who wants to take the world and act on it will not be able to achieve, I know. The world is a sacred vessel* Which cannot be acted on. To act on it is to destroy it. To seize it is to lose it.** So the things Either lead or follow; Either whistle or blow; Either are strong or weak; Either defeat or fall.*3* That is why the Sage abandons the excessive, the extravagant, and the extreme.*4*"