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Everything is fraud: if we strive for the minimum in deception, if we follow the average, if we try for the maximum. In the first case, we take the good for granted, because this would make it much easier for us to achieve it; and evil too, because we impose too unfavorable fighting conditions for him. In the second case, we get the good stuff; because in this way we do not even strive for it during our earthly life. In the third case, we take the good for granted, because we distance ourselves from it as far as we can; evil too, because we trust that if we increase it to the extreme, we can take its power. According to this, we should choose the middle way, because we always deceive the good, but in this case, at least apparently, not the evil.