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Chapter 65
Those who practiced Tao in olden times did not enlighten people,
Rather they made them simple.
What makes it the hardest to govern the people is what they already know.
It becomes most difficult to govern people because of their knowledge.
So, using knowledge to govern the country, knowledge itself becomes the thief [...]
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Chapter 64
It is easy to sustain what is at rest.
It is easy to plan for that of which there is not even a sign.
What is fragile is easily broken.
What is minute is easily dispersed.
Act upon it before it exists.
Regulate it before it becomes chaos.
A massive tree grows from a [...]
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Chapter 63
Do nondoing.
Engage in non-affairs.
Savor non-flavor.
Large or small, many or few, reward or punishment, are all being done through Action.
Seek what is difficult with ease.
Effect what is great while it is small.
The most difficult things in the world are done while they are easy.
The greatest things in the world are done while they are small.
The [...]
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Chapter 62
Tao is the conductor of all things.
The treasure of the good.
The protector of the bad.
Beautiful words can advertise well.
Noble conduct brings praise to people.
As for those who conduct the bad, why reject them for it?
Therefore, after the crowning of the emperor comes the appointing of three administrations.
Being presented with jade in front of the [...]
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Chapter 61
A great nation flows downwardly, it is the mother of the world and the integration of the world.
The mother is always tranquil and overcomes the male by her tranquility, so she benefits the world.
A great nation relies on a low position to take over a small nation.
A small nation, being in a low position, [...]
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Chapter 60
Governing a large country is like cooking a small fish.
If Tao is utilized to manage the society, its ghost will not become spirit.
Not that ghost is not spiritual, but that the spirit harms no people;
Not only does the spirit harm not the people, but that the sage is harmless.
As those two cause no harm, [...]
