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"Ruling a large state is like cooking small fish. When you use the Way to govern the world, evil spirits won't have godlike power. Actually, it's not that evil spirits won't have godlike power, It's that their power will not harm men. But it's not [just] that their power won't harm men, The Sage, also, will not harm them. Since these two do not harm others, Therefore their Virtues intermingle and return to them."
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Author

Lao Tzu

Book

Tao Te Ching
Version: 8
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